Archive: 14/01/2016
Higher dietary nitrate and green leafy vegetable intake associated with lower risk of glaucoma
Greater intake of dietary nitrate and green leafy vegetables was associated with a 20 percent to 30 percent lower risk of primary open-angle glaucoma, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.
Jan 14, 2016
Palliative care initiated in the ED associated with improved quality of life
A palliative care consultation initiated in the emergency department (ED) for patients with advanced cancer was associated with improved quality of life and did not seem to shorten survival, according to an article published ...
Jan 14, 2016
Patients with high health insurance deductibles use fewer imaging tests
In the first nationwide study to directly address the associations between high-deductible insurance plans and the use of diagnostic imaging, researchers including Kimberley Geissler at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ...
Jan 14, 2016
Engineering synthetic skeletal muscle
We live in an age where new bionic limb models appear every week and tissues can be 3D-printed. Considering these exciting advances, it should come as no surprise that researchers are coming closer to engineering functional ...
Jan 14, 2016
Weighing benefits and costs of azithromycin during delivery
Some infants of lactating mothers given the antibiotic and antimalarial, azithromycin, during delivery may be protected from disease, or harmed by the drug. These findings are the results of the most comprehensive evaluation ...
Jan 14, 2016
Figuring out what happened in a psychotherapy intervention trial
John Ioannidis, the "scourge of sloppy science" has documented again and again that the safeguards being introduced into the biomedical literature against untrustworthy findings are usually inconsistent and ineffective. ...
Jan 14, 2016