Archive: 26/11/2014

US adult smoking rate drops to new low: CDC

(HealthDay)—Fewer American adults are smoking cigarettes than ever, health officials said.

Nov 26, 2014

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NPs, PAs use more diagnostic imaging compared to physicians

(HealthDay)—Advanced practice clinicians (APCs) use more imaging than primary care physicians (PCPs), according to a study published online Nov. 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Nov 26, 2014

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600 Ebola cases in hard-hit countries in past week

The World Health Organization says 600 new cases of Ebola were reported in the most-affected countries in the past week, more than half of them in Sierra Leone.

Nov 26, 2014

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Don't let high altitude ruin your holiday trip

(HealthDay)—When you're planning your holiday get-away, don't forget to factor high altitude into your vacation sports—such as skiing or hiking, a sports medicine specialist cautions.

Nov 26, 2014

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At one month, US Ebola monitors finding no cases

The U.S. program that requires weeks of monitoring for travelers from African countries with Ebola reaches the one-month mark Thursday. And so far, no cases of the disease have turned up.

Nov 26, 2014

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Researchers identify brain regions that encode words, grammar, story

Some people say that reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" taught them the importance of friends, or that easy decisions are seldom right. Carnegie Mellon University scientists used a chapter of that book to learn ...

Nov 26, 2014

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Human antibodies produced in DNA-vaccinated cows protect in lethal models of hantavirus

Scientists investigating the potentially deadly hantavirus have used a novel approach to developing protective antibodies against it. Their work, published in today's online edition of Science Translational Medicine, provides ...

Nov 26, 2014

Team finds an off switch for pain

In research published in the medical journal Brain, Saint Louis University researcher Daniela Salvemini, Ph.D. and colleagues within SLU, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other academic institutions have discovered ...

Nov 26, 2014

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Blistering skin disease may be treatable with 'therapeutic reprogramming'

Induced pluripotent stem cells made from patients with a form of blistering skin disease can be genetically corrected and used to grow back healthy skin cells in laboratory dishes, researchers at the Stanford University School ...

Nov 26, 2014

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EU calls for 5,000 doctors to fight Ebola

The European Commission called for 5,000 doctors to be sent from EU states to combat west Africa's Ebola epidemic, a European source with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

Nov 26, 2014

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