Researchers at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis say acculturative stress may explain, in part, why Indiana's Latino youth face an alarming disparity in depression and suicide rates when compared to their ...
Nov 18, 2014
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Saleem Al-Nuaimi didn't know what to expect when he first visited Turkey on a medical mission in 2012 to help refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. A psychiatric resident at the University of Alberta, Al-Nuaimi was eager ...
Nov 5, 2014
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By any measure, tuberculosis (TB) is a wildly successful pathogen. It infects as many as two billion people in every corner of the world, with a new infection of a human host estimated to occur every second.
Aug 21, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Though heart problems or heatstroke generally are to blame for a young athlete's sudden death, experts now know that carrying an aberration called the sickle cell trait also poses substantial risk.
Dec 28, 2012
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As people head out to deer camps or cabins this fall, they may want to take some precautions to safeguard themselves against a potentially fatal virus that sickened nine and killed three in California's Yosemite National ...
Oct 10, 2012
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Nurses can play a key role in feeding people and restoring their humanity in times of great crisis and this was very evident during their little-known involvement in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen at the end of World War ...
Sep 20, 2012
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(AP) -- Again and again, 12-year-old Brianna Bowens cautiously pokes the human eyeball. On purpose.
Jul 25, 2011
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Misty Clyde ran up and down several sets of bleacher stairs at the university’s Cobb Track before pausing to stretch against a handrail. Her new lungs — or, as she sometimes refers to them, her recycled lungs -- ...
Apr 25, 2011
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