Head injury patients show signs of faster aging in the brain
People who have suffered serious head injuries show changes in brain structure resembling those seen in older people, according to a new study.
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Obama: Base health care payments on quality, not quantity
President Barack Obama wants to cut health care costs by reducing inefficiencies like unnecessarily long hospital stays and excessive paperwork for doctors that rack up big bills.
Mar 25, 2015
Younger motorists and females most likely to use cell phone while driving
Eighteen percent of drivers on academic and medical campuses use their cell phones while driving, according to researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health.
Mar 25, 2015
Pregnant women not getting enough omega-3, critical for infant development
Alberta Pregnancy Outcomes and Nutrition (APrON) is a birth cohort involving over two thousand women and their infants from Calgary and Edmonton that was funded by Alberta Innovates Health Solutions and includes researchers ...
Mar 25, 2015
Team identifies mutations that may enable earlier diagnosis of colorectal cancer recurrence
A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and scientists from Singapore has characterised the genetic changes associated with the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver. This finding is significant in helping to develop personalised ...
Mar 25, 2015
Study helps predict which kindergartners will have reading difficulties
For years, teachers have seen students who were promising readers in the primary grades begin to experience challenges in third and fourth grades as reading materials became more difficult. University of Kansas researchers ...
Mar 25, 2015
