How long a person can stand — on one leg — is a more telltale measure of aging than changes in strength or gait, according to new Mayo Clinic research. The study appears today in the journal PLOS ONE.
Manipulating a newly identified neural circuit can curb appetite—or spur massive overeating.
Cal State Fullerton has been named among the nation’s environmentally sustainable colleges in the Princeton Review’s Green Colleges: 2025 Edition, and its green college list.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا — يعد الوقت الذي يمكن فيه للشخص الوقوف — على قدم واحدة — قياسًا دالاً على مدى التقدم في السن أكثر من التغيرات في القوة والمشية، وذلك وفق بحث جديد أجرته مايو كلينك. ستُنشر هذه الدراسة اليوم في مجلة PLOS ONE.
As part of its ongoing commitment to patient comfort and healing, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center today announced a new focus on art to support the revitalization and expansion of its clinical facilities. This initiative will include the creation of a multisensory healing environment in both public spaces and patient care areas that are designed to prevent disease, promote health and foster well-being.
Researchers from WashU Medicine and Northwestern University developed an implantable device that can detect an overdose and rapidly deliver naloxone.
Researchers are developing an objective, quantitative score for pain by measuring over 30 biomarkers including stress hormones, inflammation markers and neurotransmitters, as well as other physiological responses, The aim is to eliminate variation and bias in the treatment of chronic pain in women.
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, an internationally-recognized neuroscientist, who is the James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean’s Endowed Professor in the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Drug Development, and Director of the University of Maryland – Medicine Institute of Neuroscience Discovery (UM-MIND), has been elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine.
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) is part of a team, led by Tufts University, along with Northwestern Medicine, that has been selected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as an awardee of the Sprint for Women’s Health.
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation® (CRF®) is proud to unveil the 2024 SET-10 (Scientific Excellence Top 10), recognizing the academic and medical institutions making the most impactful contributions to interventional cardiovascular research at TCT® 2024 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics®), the annual scientific symposium of CRF®.
Federally and state-funded initiatives led by Binghamton University, State University of New York aim to establish upstate New York as a national hub for battery innovation and manufacturing.
Certain infectious diseases, such as COVID or the flu, evolve constantly, shapeshifting just enough to outmaneuver our immune systems and reinfect us repeatedly. But subsequent reinfections often don’t lead to the most severe outcomes—for very good reason. Upon first exposure to a pathogen, our immune systems churn out specially trained B cells, which have learned to identify and eliminate the virus.
The U.S. is currently in the midst of yet another West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak, with the CDC documenting 880 cases across 46 states so far this year.
By: Stephen Stone | Published: October 23, 2024 | 12:10 pm | SHARE: On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an outbreak of Escherichia coli (E. coli) linked to McDonald’s quarter pounders.According to the Associated Press, 49 cases between Sept. 27 through Oct. 11 were reported in the states of Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
An innovative study by Dr. Hernan Bazan at Ochsner Health and colleagues reveals how frailty assessments can accurately predict outcomes in urgent carotid artery interventions for stroke patients.
New research by Rutgers Health researchers highlights a complex relationship between bacteria in the digestive tract and brain health.
The Department of Geriatrics at the Florida State University College of Medicine continues to lead efforts to reshape health care to serve older patients’ unique needs. It was recently awarded a five-year, $5 million grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
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