Sleeping an extra 29 minutes each night can be the key to improving mindfulness, a critical resource that has benefits for daily well-being and work performance. Mindfulness is achieved by purposefully bringing an individual's ...
Oct 13, 2020
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In a healthy brain, the multistep waste clearance process known as autophagy routinely removes and degrades damaged cell components—including malformed proteins like tau and toxic mitochondria. This cellular debris would ...
Oct 12, 2020
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one-in-four people who died from COVID-19 in the U.S. had been living in a long-term care facility. The sobering statistic is even more alarming when you consider ...
Oct 6, 2020
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As COVID-19 quickly spread worldwide this spring, shortages of supplies, including the nasopharyngeal (nasal) swabs used to collect viral samples, limited diagnostic testing.
Sep 25, 2020
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More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But researchers from the University of South Florida claim that ...
Sep 23, 2020
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In certain patients suffering a severe ischemic stroke, a mechanical device can be used to remove a clot blocking blood flow to the brain. The minimally invasive procedure either suctions the clot directly out of a large ...
Aug 11, 2020
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A receptor that plays an essential role in safely clearing chronic unresolved cardiac inflammation may offer new targets for treating an increasing type of heart failure associated with age-related obesity, suggests a preclinical ...
Jun 22, 2020
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Black men and women have higher incidences than whites of developing advanced heart failure following a heart attack. Despite racial disparities in heart attacks (a leading contributor to heart failure), and rehospitalizations ...
May 5, 2020
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The short-term acute inflammatory response triggered to mend injured cardiac tissue following a heart attack can lead to weakening of the heart's pumping function if the inflammation remains active over the long-term. Heart ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Neuroscientists at the University of South Florida have become the first to definitively prove pressure in the eye is sufficient to cause and explain glaucoma. They come to this conclusion following the development of a method ...
Feb 24, 2020
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