(Yale University) Halting a medication that treats one ailment because it may worsen another is a treatment trade-off decision that elderly patients with multiple medical conditions would rather take part in, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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(University of Washington) A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients. The findings suggest that while all doctors should be attentive to differences in patient experiences, Hispanic, Native American, and black patients are often visiting [...]
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(Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine) Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and ALS affect millions of individuals every year. Current medications are modestly effective, at best, and only target the symptoms associated with these debilitating and fatal disorders. Drugs to prevent or slow down the death of neurons are urgently [...]
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(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Scientists believe that complex diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression and cancer are not caused by one, but a multitude of dysfunctional genes.
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(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers. Scientists announced the finding as a five-year NASA-funded project nears its conclusion.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Montezuma’s revenge may be tamed by an investigational fluoroquinolone antibiotic, a researcher said here.
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(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Transfusion science, a discipline of biomedicine concerned with preventing the transmission of diseases associated with blood transfusion and tissue transplantation, has made significant progress in recent years. The second edition of an informative book in this field, “Transfusion Science,” was recently released by Scion Publishing.
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(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Although videoconferencing has become a billion-dollar substitute for flying business people to meetings, it leaves distant participants less likely to make sound judgments about speakers being viewed over a screen, according to a study published in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management [...]
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Well-publicized celebrity teenage pregnancies and depictions of teen pregnancy in films represent a “squandered opportunity for a serious national discussion of teen motherhood,” panelists said at a recent public policy forum organized by the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall Center for Children, the AP/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
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Pharmacogenomics research and development innovator PharmaGenoma, Inc. and its subsidiary HairDX, LLC, today unveiled the next generation of its genetic screening test for male pattern baldness. The HairDX test is available immediately thru qualified physicians’ offices.
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