Archive: 11/06/2014
Study identifies risk factors for hospital readmissions
Hospital readmission, an important measure of quality care, costs the United States an estimated $17 billion each year. And according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), about half of those readmissions ...
Jun 11, 2014
What's the best way for toddlers to acquire verb meaning?
New research is shedding light on what kind of sentences are best at facilitating the growth of toddlers' vocabularies.
Jun 11, 2014
Obesity gene linked to hormonal changes that favor energy surplus
A new study from Uppsala University demonstrates that elderly humans carrying a common variant of the fat mass and obesity gene FTO also have a shifted endocrine balance. Low blood concentrations of the satiety hormone leptin ...
Jun 11, 2014