Archive: 16/03/2017

Precision medicine platform now open for collaborative discovery about cardiovascular diseases

The American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform—a global, secure data discovery platform, recently developed in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS)—is now open for use. Researchers, physicians, computational ...

Mar 16, 2017

Better sleep feels like winning the lottery

Improving your sleep quality is as beneficial to health and happiness as winning the lottery, according to research by the University of Warwick.

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Researcher studies a peer support group for expectant mothers that lowers the infant mortality rate

The numbers are stark. Research shows that black infants across the United States are more than twice as likely as white infants to die in their first year, regardless of their parents' socioeconomic status.

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New braces clinical trial sheds metal brackets

The use of terms like "metal mouth" and "brace face" may soon be a thing of the past.

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Test strip able to identify blood type in less than a minute

(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at Third Military Medical University in China has developed a test strip that can be used to identify a person's blood type in less than a minute. In their paper published in the journal ...

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Researchers find a way to track how you feel when it's time for a meal

Many of us lie or can't remember what we ate when asked to reveal our eating habits, and that makes it difficult for doctors and researchers to guide us toward better diets and behaviors. But what if there was a way for them ...

Mar 16, 2017

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Daily consumption of tea protects the elderly from cognitive decline

Tea drinking reduces the risk of cognitive impairment in older persons by 50 per cent and as much as 86 per cent for those who are genetically at risk of Alzheimer's

Mar 16, 2017

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The ethics of recruiting study participants on social media

(Medical Xpress)—In the recent issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, the target article addresses the ethics of finding participants for clinical trials on social media sites. The authors, from Harvard Law School ...

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Researching how stress among sexual minorities affects health on genetic level

Stress is a natural part of life; everyone experiences it to some degree. But a growing body of research suggests that chronic stress can have a negative effect on health, ranging from relatively mild complaints like sleeplessness ...

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Creating neurons from skin cells to understand autism

Studying brain disorders is complicated for many reasons, not the least being the ethics of obtaining living neurons. To overcome that obstacle, UC San Francisco postdoc Aditi Deshpande, PhD, is starting with skin cells.

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