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- Moving toward a gold standard in patient handoff protocols
- Making the microbiome part of precision medicine
- PFO closure is more effective than medical management in preventing recurrent stroke, long-term study results show
- Motivation to move: Study finds mild exercise helps decrease pain and improve activity level in older adults
- Study bodes well for low-carb eaters
- Stimulating the brain makes exercising the legs feel easier
- Patient safety benefits when hospitals provide feedback to staff who report errors
- Scientists prove how genetics change behavior by studying worms' foraging strategies
- Scientists show how mutation causes incurable premature aging disease
- Stents, bypass surgery equally safe, effective for many with left main heart disease
- Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size'
- Missing link between hemolysis and infection found
- Model expands landscape for signaling protein mutations
- Potential target identified for preventing long-term effects of traumatic brain injury
- Diet can impact migraines
- Watching RNA fold
- Delayed gratification associated with fast food frequency
- New method for performing aortic valve replacement proves successful in high risk patients
- New window on mitochondria division
- Fruits and vegetables may slow ALS
- Young adults' problem drinking may have lasting health effects
- Majority under 35 think e-cigs are safer, research studies aim to find out
- Low-oxygen environment leads to heart regeneration in mice, research shows
- New discovery could help oral medicines work better
- Scientists discover the 'switch' that makes breast cancer cells aggressive
- Structural deficits may explain mood-independent cognitive difficulties in bipolar disorder
- How autoimmune disease is prevented: Mechanism discovered
- Being fit protects against health risks caused by stress at work
- Strange behavior in the crowded cellular environment
- Live long and ... Facebook?
- Raising 'good cholesterol' not as effective as lowering 'bad cholesterol'
- New study 'sheds light' on the mechanisms safeguarding the genome
| Moving toward a gold standard in patient handoff protocols Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:36 AM PDT A deep dive into the research on standardized handoff protocols reveals processes that result in the best outcomes for patients, caregivers, and health-care organizations. |
| Making the microbiome part of precision medicine Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:36 AM PDT Studies of the microbiome should be integral to future precision medicine initiatives, argue scientists in a new article. |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:34 AM PDT Percutaneously closing a patent foramen ovale (PFO) using the Amplatzer PFO Occluder was superior to medical management in the prevention of recurrent ischemic stroke in patients who previously had a cryptogenic stroke, final results from the RESPECT trial found. |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:34 AM PDT A low-impact exercise program in senior centers in New York City's Chinatown and Flushing, Queens communities helped decrease pain, improve mobility and enhance quality of life for many participants, investigators found. |
| Study bodes well for low-carb eaters Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:34 AM PDT Three low-carb meals within 24 hours lowers post-meal insulin resistance by more than 30 percent, but high-carb meals sustain insulin resistance, a condition that leads to high blood pressure, prediabetes and diabetes, according to a study. |
| Stimulating the brain makes exercising the legs feel easier Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:34 AM PDT Stimulation of the brain impacts on endurance exercise performance by decreasing perception of effort, new research shows. |
| Patient safety benefits when hospitals provide feedback to staff who report errors Posted: 01 Nov 2016 10:32 AM PDT Voluntary reporting by hospital staff of errors and patient safety events are a key source of information for improving patient care. A new analysis suggests that to increase reporting, hospitals should focus on informing staff about how their previous reports have helped enhance patient safety. |
| Scientists prove how genetics change behavior by studying worms' foraging strategies Posted: 01 Nov 2016 08:17 AM PDT In order to study why organisms pay attention to what other members of their species are doing, scientists set out to understand how animals are incorporating social information into their behavior. A recent study pinpoints genome variations that allow animals to use information about their competitors to modify their innate strategies for searching for food. These findings provide concrete evidence for game theory, which suggests, among other things, that population density changes how individuals act. |
| Scientists show how mutation causes incurable premature aging disease Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:48 AM PDT Scientists have demonstrated how a mutation in a specific protein in stem cells causes an incurable premature aging disease called dyskeratosis congenita, and were able to introduce the mutation into cultured human cells using gene editing technology. The study findings provide a drug target for the disease, the lead author suggests. |
| Stents, bypass surgery equally safe, effective for many with left main heart disease Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:46 AM PDT Drug-eluting stents, a less-invasive alternative to bypass surgery, are as effective as surgery for many patients with a blockage in the left main coronary artery, a major international study has found. |
| Twelve DNA areas 'linked with the age at which we have our first child and family size' Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:43 AM PDT Researchers identify specific areas of DNA sequence that are related with the age at which we have our first child, and the total number of children we have during the course of our life. |
| Missing link between hemolysis and infection found Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:42 AM PDT Researchers have discovered how hemolysis causes infections, and have found a new means to prevent it, paving the way to new treatment possibilities. |
| Model expands landscape for signaling protein mutations Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:40 AM PDT Protein pairs that control stimulus response in bacteria maintain a sensitive balance between interaction specificity and promiscuity, according to scientists. A computational model will help biologists take advantage of the homologous nature of bacterial signaling systems to reveal the minimal mutations that allow a signaling protein to be efficiently reprogrammed to prefer a nonpartner signaling protein. |
| Potential target identified for preventing long-term effects of traumatic brain injury Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:38 AM PDT Protecting axons may prevent development of neurological problems associated with TBI, study in mice suggests. |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:35 AM PDT Eliminating that morning 'Cup of Joe,' consuming processed foods high in nitrites or monosodium glutamate (MSG) and enjoying too much alcohol are potential headache triggers for individuals battling migraines, suggests a new report. |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:34 AM PDT By the time you reach the end of this sentence, RNA folding will have taken place in your body more than 10 quadrillion times. The folding of RNA is essential to life, yet because it happens so rapidly, researchers have difficulty studying the process. |
| Delayed gratification associated with fast food frequency Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:32 AM PDT An ability to delay immediate gratification is associated with less frequent consumption of fast food, research indicates. The study has public health significance since away-from-home eating, and fast food consumption in particular, contribute to obesity in the United States. |
| New method for performing aortic valve replacement proves successful in high risk patients Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:30 AM PDT A new, less invasive way has been developed to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a procedure widely used to treat aortic valve stenosis, a lethal heart condition. The new approach, called transcaval access, will make TAVR more available to high risk patients, especially women, whose femoral arteries are too small or diseased to withstand the standard procedure. |
| New window on mitochondria division Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:28 AM PDT For the first time, research shows the final stages of how mitochondria, the sausage-shaped, power-generating organelles found in nearly all living cells, regularly divide and propagate. |
| Fruits and vegetables may slow ALS Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:26 AM PDT A diet rich in antioxidants and carotenoids is linked to better outcomes for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, say investigators. |
| Young adults' problem drinking may have lasting health effects Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:18 AM PDT Young adults with symptoms of alcohol dependence may see health effects late in life, even decades after conquering their problem drinking, according to a study. Researchers found that, of 664 U.S. male veterans, those who had symptoms of alcohol dependence for at least five years in young adulthood generally had poorer physical and mental health by the time they were in their 60s. |
| Majority under 35 think e-cigs are safer, research studies aim to find out Posted: 01 Nov 2016 07:17 AM PDT Most Americans under age 35 think that using electronic cigarettes does not cause as much damage lung health as compared with traditional cigarettes, according to the results of a new national consumer survey. |
| Low-oxygen environment leads to heart regeneration in mice, research shows Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:38 AM PDT Normal, healthy heart muscle is well-supplied with oxygen-rich blood. But now cardiologists have been able to regenerate heart muscle by placing mice in an extremely low-oxygen environment. |
| New discovery could help oral medicines work better Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:35 AM PDT A new method for customizing ingredients that help oral medications dissolve in the body and be absorbed into the bloodstream has now been discovered by researchers. The materials discovered in this study could allow life-saving drugs to work faster and more efficiently. |
| Scientists discover the 'switch' that makes breast cancer cells aggressive Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:32 AM PDT By controlling a molecular switch, scientists could potentially make aggressive cancers more sensitive to conventional drugs and improve treatment outcomes, say researchers. |
| Structural deficits may explain mood-independent cognitive difficulties in bipolar disorder Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:32 AM PDT Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a new study reports a link between reduced functional activation and reduced cortical thickness in the brains of patients with bipolar disorder. The abnormalities were found in patients not currently experiencing depression or mania, which suggests that there is a structural basis for altered neural processing that may help explain why cognitive deficits persist even during periods of normal mood. |
| How autoimmune disease is prevented: Mechanism discovered Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:32 AM PDT A previously unknown safety mechanism in our immune system keeps the body free from autoimmune diseases. Researchers have discovered that a cell in our inherited immune system can prevent our adaptive (learned) immune system from reacting to the body's native cells, which can otherwise lead to autoimmune diseases such as SLE. |
| Being fit protects against health risks caused by stress at work Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:32 AM PDT It is a well-known fact that fitness and well-being go hand in hand. But being in good shape also protects against the health problems that arise when we feel particularly stressed at work. As reported by sports scientists, it therefore pays to stay physically active, especially during periods of high stress. |
| Strange behavior in the crowded cellular environment Posted: 01 Nov 2016 06:32 AM PDT The powerful K computer has been used to show how molecules move within the extremely crowded interior of a bacterial cell. |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2016 01:51 PM PDT Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer -- when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ties. |
| Raising 'good cholesterol' not as effective as lowering 'bad cholesterol' Posted: 31 Oct 2016 01:04 PM PDT Low and very high levels of HDL, or "good cholesterol" are associated with a higher risk of dying from heart disease, cancer and other causes, according to a study. The findings from the first of its kind study suggest that a low level of good cholesterol may not be a heart disease risk factor on its own and that raising HDL does not likely reduce a person's risk of heart disease. |
| New study 'sheds light' on the mechanisms safeguarding the genome Posted: 31 Oct 2016 07:37 AM PDT Understanding the molecular mechanisms that exist for cells to safeguard their genome against cancer-causing defects is crucial not only to understand how cancer arises but also because these mechanisms can be targeted therapeutically. Researchers have identified a new net of molecular interactions occurring within cells upon exposure to DNA damaging UV radiation. |
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