Archive: 22/02/2018

More Americans pushed into high-deductible health plans

(HealthDay)—The number of uninsured American adults held steady at about 13 percent in 2017, but many more insured Americans are being presented with high deductibles, new research shows.

Feb 22, 2018

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Too much TV could boost your odds for a blood clot

(HealthDay)— Hours spent binge-watching that hot new series might feel great, but it's doing no favors for your blood vessels, new research shows.

Feb 22, 2018

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Shedding a tear may help diagnose Parkinson's disease

Tears may hold clues to whether someone has Parkinson's disease, according to a preliminary study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 70th Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, April 21 to ...

Feb 22, 2018

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Researchers adapt HIV test in developing rapid diagnostic test for Zika virus

Researchers at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), in collaboration with Rheonix, Inc. (Ithaca, NY), are developing a novel test for Zika virus that uses saliva to identify diagnostic markers of the ...

Feb 22, 2018

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As pediatric use of iNO increased, mortality rates dropped

Use of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) among pediatric patients has increased since 2005 and, during a 10-year time period, mortality rates dropped modestly as the therapeutic approach was applied to a broader range of health ...

Feb 22, 2018

Beetroot juice supplements may help certain heart failure patients

Beetroot juice supplements may help enhance exercise capacity in patients with heart failure, according to a new proof-of-concept study. Exercise capacity is a key factor linked to these patients' quality of life and even ...

Feb 22, 2018

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Team develops new technology platform for cancer immunotherapy

Johns Hopkins researchers have invented a new class of immunotherapeutic agents that are more effective at harnessing the power of the immune system to fight cancer. Their approach results in significant inhibition of tumor ...

Feb 22, 2018

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Infants are able to learn abstract rules visually

Three-month-old babies cannot sit up or roll over, yet they are already capable of learning patterns from simply looking at the world around them, according to a recent Northwestern University study published in PLOS One.

Feb 22, 2018

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Opioid abuse leads to heroin use and a hepatitis C epidemic, researcher says

Heroin is worse than other drugs because people inject it much sooner, potentially resulting in increased risk of injection-related epidemics such as hepatitis C and HIV, a Keck School of Medicine of USC study shows.

Feb 22, 2018

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Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive

A new technique developed by neuroscientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough can, for the first time, reconstruct images of what people perceive based on their brain activity gathered by EEG.

Feb 22, 2018

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