Pharmacies should proactively offer naloxone, a drug that blocks or reverses the effects of overdose, to patients taking opioid medications through universal opt-out strategies in an effort to get the life-saving drug into ...
Mar 23, 2017
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A DNA-based prenatal blood test used to screen pregnancies for Down syndrome and similar chromosome abnormalities in high-risk women has moved a step closer to use in the general pregnancy population. Researchers at Women ...
Feb 3, 2017
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In 2011, with an urge to pursue a deeper education in health care, medical research assistant and phlebotomist Akosua Adu-Boahene moved to Rhode Island from Kentucky to earn a master's degree in public health at Brown University. ...
Jan 24, 2017
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The number of U.S. women taking maternity leave has not changed in 22 years despite factors that suggest it should be increasing, a new study found.
Jan 19, 2017
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The ticks that transmit Lyme disease to people die of dehydration when exposed to a combination of high temperature and lowered humidity, a new USGS-led study has found. In an earlier related study, the researchers found ...
Jan 11, 2017
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Since the mid-1800s, nitrous oxide been used for pain relief, but it's usually associated with a visit to the dentist.
Nov 22, 2016
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A decrease in the average level of lead in a preschooler's blood reduces the probability of that child being substantially below proficient in reading by the third grade, a new National Bureau of Economics Research working ...
Oct 5, 2016
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A new Brown University study projects that increasing the number of Rhode Islanders treated every year for hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) to about 2,000 by 2020 would reduce cases by 90 percent and prevent more than 70 ...
Aug 5, 2016
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More than 60 percent of Rhode Island men who have sex with men (MSM) diagnosed with HIV in 2013 reported meeting sexual partners online in the preceding year, according to a study published today in the journal Public Health ...
Feb 26, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Delayed clamping of a preterm infant's umbilical cord leads to better motor function development, a new study suggests.
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