Health care providers are encouraged to prescribe lifestyle modifications for preventing and managing obesity and associated chronic conditions. However, the…
How can clinicians, specialty societies and others evaluate and improve the quality of apps for patient use?
Health-related apps have great potential to enhance health and prevent disease globally, but their quality currently varies too much for…
Epileptics in high-crime neighborhoods have three times as many seizures
People with epilepsy living in high crime neighborhoods in Chicago had three times as many seizures as those living in…
Global trial shows CAR T therapy can lead to durable remissions in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
In an update to a global clinical trial stretching from Philadelphia to four continents, the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T…
What is diabetes?
Diabetes mellitus represents a set of autoimmune, metabolic and genetic disorders that share one major characteristic – hyperglycaemia. The recommended…
Clues to brain changes in depression
In new pre-clinical research, scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), led by Scott Thompson, PhD, Professor…
The future of fighting cancer: Zapping tumors in less than a second
New accelerator-based technology aims to reduce the side effects of cancer radiation therapy by shrinking its duration from minutes to…
In vitro cell culture findings could lead to novel interventions for Schizophrenia
A recent study has shown how using cultured cells from patients with psychotic disorders to investigate abnormalities in nerve connections…
Personality Traits in Patients with Myocardial Infarction with Nonobstructive Coronary Arteries
The purpose of this study was to describe type A behavior pattern and trait anger in patients with myocardial infarction…
African-American mothers rate boys higher for ADHD
African-American children often are reported by parents and teachers to display behaviors of ADHD at a higher rate than children…