Archive: 14/01/2020

Aid group warns of Yemen dengue epidemic after 78 child deaths

At least 78 children in war-torn Yemen have died from dengue-related illnesses, Save the Children said Tuesday, warning of an epidemic.

Jan 14, 2020

New study finds evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia

Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the connections between neurons in the living brains of people with schizophrenia.

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Only one in four Medicare patients participate in cardiac rehabilitation

Too few people covered by Medicare participated in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack or acute heart event or surgery, particularly women, the elderly and non-white patients, according to new research ...

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Burnout linked with irregular heartbeat

Feeling excessively tired, devoid of energy, demoralised, and irritable? You may have burnout, a syndrome associated with a potentially deadly heart rhythm disturbance. That's the conclusion of a large study published today ...

Jan 14, 2020

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Hospital critical care resuscitation unit improves patients' chances of survival

Patients with acutely life-threatening health conditions who were treated in the innovative Critical Care Resuscitation Unit (CCRU) received faster treatment and had better health outcomes, including a 36 percent lower risk ...

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Participants in environmental health studies vulnerable to re-identification

Before sharing human research data, scientists routinely strip it of personal information such as name, address, and birthdate in order to protect the privacy of their study participants. However, reporting in the journal ...

Jan 14, 2020

NAU engineer developing biomaterial for improved treatment of cerebral aneurysms

Tim Becker, an associate professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, is developing a polypropylene glycol-based biomaterial called PPODA-QT, which is similar to body tissue, ...

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Elevated leukemia incidence is found in World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers

Responders who worked at the World Trade Center site after the attacks on September 11, 2001, have an increased overall cancer incidence compared to the general population, particularly in thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, ...

Jan 14, 2020

Flame retardants and pesticides overtake heavy metals as biggest contributors to IQ loss

Adverse outcomes from childhood exposures to lead and mercury are on the decline in the United States, likely due to decades of restrictions on the use of heavy metals, a new study finds.

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Study finds persistent gender gap in medical paper publication

A new study in the journal Family Practice, published by Oxford University Press, shows that there remains a meaningful gender gap between the number of biomedical papers written by women and those written by men.

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Archive: 14/01/2020

Aid group warns of Yemen dengue epidemic after 78 child deaths

New study finds evidence for reduced brain connections in schizophrenia

Only one in four Medicare patients participate in cardiac rehabilitation

Burnout linked with irregular heartbeat

Hospital critical care resuscitation unit improves patients' chances of survival

Participants in environmental health studies vulnerable to re-identification

NAU engineer developing biomaterial for improved treatment of cerebral aneurysms

Elevated leukemia incidence is found in World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers

Flame retardants and pesticides overtake heavy metals as biggest contributors to IQ loss

Study finds persistent gender gap in medical paper publication

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