Health
Prenatal Medicaid benefits boost health gains across generations
The expansion of Medicaid to provide low-income women with prenatal care in the 1980s and 1990s was a success in improving birth outcomes.
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Pediatrics
Study: Most US adults say today's children have worse health prospects
Ask adults of all ages if today's children are healthier than children of their own generation.
Nov 2, 2017
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Health
Millennials embrace nursing profession—just in time to replace baby boomers
The days are long past when the only career doors that readily opened to young women were those marked teacher, secretary or nurse. Yet young adults who are part of the millennial generation are nearly twice as likely as ...
Nov 2, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Mental wellbeing of generation X directly linked to childhoodÂ
Childhood disadvantage is strongly associated with poorer adult mental wellbeing for generation X, according to a UCL study.
Oct 26, 2017
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Medical research
New approach helps rodents with spinal cord injury breathe on their own
One of the most severe consequences of spinal cord injury in the neck is losing the ability to control the diaphragm and breathe on one's own. Now, investigators show for the first time in laboratory models that two different ...
Oct 17, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
A new class of drugs aims to exploit cancer cells' weaknesses
In recent years, new cancer treatments have brought hope to people who once had limited options. But for others, the wait for an effective drug continues. Now on the horizon is a new generation of drugs based on a concept ...
Oct 11, 2017
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Health
Disturbing trends in men's reproductive health demand urgent action
Urgent action is needed to investigate disturbing trends in men's reproductive health, argues an expert in The BMJ today.
Oct 10, 2017
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Medications
FDA: Drug shortages possible due to Puerto Rico power outage
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says drug shortages are possible because of expected long-term power outages in Puerto Rico.
Oct 7, 2017
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Medical research
New findings on mechanisms for body temperature regulation by fat tissue
New discoveries about the mechanism responsible for heat generation in the body related to fat tissue oppose classical views in the field and could lead to new ways to fight metabolic disorders associated with obesity, according ...
Oct 5, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
DNA-based Zika vaccine is safe and effective at inducing immune response
A new generation DNA-based Zika vaccine demonstrated both safety and ability to elicit an immune response against Zika in humans in a phase 1 clinical trial conducted through a partnership among the Perelman School of Medicine ...
Oct 4, 2017
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