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Released: 30-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Healthy Diet Linked to Lower Death Rates Among Low-Income Residents in Southeastern U.S.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Eating a healthy diet was linked with a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, cancer or other diseases among a population of low-income individuals living in the Southeastern U.S., according to research led by Vanderbilt University investigators. Nearly two-thirds of the participants in the study were African-American.

Released: 30-Jun-2015 8:05 AM EDT
Athlete Safety, Smart Concrete, and the Dangers of Sugary Drinks; Top Stories for 30 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Other topics include; grape seed oil to reduce obesity, gender differences in chronic pain, workplace wellness, healthcare in rural Africa after Ebola, cancer treatment, and finding a cure for MERS.

       
Released: 29-Jun-2015 4:05 PM EDT
After Ebola, Understanding Health Care Needs Among Rural Liberians
Georgetown University Medical Center

As Liberia rebuilds a health care system decimated by the 2014 Ebola outbreak, understanding precisely how far citizens live from health facilities and its impact on seeking care can help shape new strategies to improve health care delivery and reduce geographic disparities.

Released: 29-Jun-2015 3:20 PM EDT
First-Ever Possible Treatments For MERS; Researchers Identify Two Promising Candidates
University of Maryland Medical Center

As the South Korean MERS outbreak continues, researchers have discovered and validated two therapeutics that show early promise in preventing and treating the disease, which can cause severe respiratory symptoms, and has a death rate of 40 percent.

Released: 29-Jun-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Experts Cover MERS Outbreak in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
American Thoracic Society (ATS)

An overview and analysis of the factors underlying the recent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in Korea has been published online ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Released: 29-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Specialized Therapy – Taught by Lay Persons – Can Aid Vulnerable, Traumatized Children in Developing Nations
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A specific type of talk therapy dispensed in the developing world to orphans and other vulnerable children who experienced trauma such as sexual and domestic abuse showed dramatic results, despite being administered by workers with little education, new research shows.

Released: 29-Jun-2015 11:30 AM EDT
Scientists Identify “Decoy” Molecule That Could Help Sharply Reduce Risk of Flu Death
University of Maryland Medical Center

The flu virus can be lethal. But what is often just as dangerous is the body’s own reaction to the invader. Now, a University of Maryland School of Medicine researcher has identified a “decoy” molecule that can rein in this runaway inflammatory response.

Released: 26-Jun-2015 8:05 AM EDT
Experts on SCOTUS ACA Ruling, Fewer Side Effects for Breast Cancer Treatment, Glacial Earthquakes, and More Top Stories 26 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Other topics include resurgence of whales off southern California, treating chronic kidney disease, and a breakthrough in a heart-specific type of stem cell.

       
Released: 25-Jun-2015 3:05 PM EDT
A Person’s Diet, Acidity of Urine May Affect Susceptibility to UTIs
Washington University in St. Louis

The acidity of urine — as well as the presence of small molecules related to diet — may influence how well bacteria can grow in the urinary tract, a new study shows. The research, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, may have implications for treating urinary tract infections, which are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide.

Released: 25-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
UCLA Studies Identify Predictors of Depression and PTSD Among African-Americans and Latinos
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Chronic disease and mental health issues disproportionately affect low-income African-Americans, Latinos and Hispanics. Researchers at UCLA have developed a screening tool that may provide better treatment.

19-Jun-2015 5:05 PM EDT
As Smoking Declines, More Are Likely to Quit
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Smokeless tobacco and, more recently, e-cigarettes have been promoted as a harm reduction strategy for smokers who are “unable or unwilling to quit.” The strategy, embraced by both industry and some public health advocates, is based on the assumption that as smoking declines overall, only those who cannot quit will remain. A new study by researchers at UC San Francisco has found just the opposite.

23-Jun-2015 10:15 AM EDT
Needle Exchanges Can Prevent More HIV Outbreaks Like One in Indiana
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Congress needs to immediately lift the ban on federal funding for needle exchange programs to counter the threat of HIV outbreaks among injection drug users like the one that has seen an alarming number of new cases erupt in a single rural Indiana county.

Released: 24-Jun-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Researchers Find Flavored Cigarettes Are Still Popular, Despite Ban
Newswise

Think clove cigarettes are so six years ago? A new study from Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) researchers finds that despite a federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban in 2009, flavored cigarettes are still available for purchase over the Internet and are popular search targets.

Released: 24-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Medical Marijuana, Autoimmune Disorders, Diabetes, SCOTUS experts - Top Stories 24 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Other topics include dietary guidelines, smart traffic lights, breast cancer, and biomarker tests for cancer treatment.

       
Released: 23-Jun-2015 4:05 PM EDT
University of Iowa Studies Impact of Marijuana on Driving
University of Iowa

A new study conducted at the University of Iowa’s National Advanced Driving Simulator has found drivers who use alcohol and marijuana together weave more on a virtual roadway than drivers who use either substance independently. However, the cocktail of alcohol and marijuana does not double the effect of the impairment.

Released: 23-Jun-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Survey: Many Doctors Misunderstand Key Facets of Opioid Abuse
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Many primary care physicians – the top prescribers of prescription pain pills in the United States – don’t understand basic facts about how people may abuse the drugs or how addictive different formulations of the medications can be, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

Released: 22-Jun-2015 6:05 PM EDT
Obesity, Excess Weight in U.S. Continue Upswing
Washington University in St. Louis

Obesity and excess weight, and their negative impact on health, have become a significant focus for physicians and other health-care experts in recent years. But new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that an escalation in the number of those considered obese or overweight in the United States continues, signaling an ongoing upward swing in chronic health conditions as well.

Released: 22-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 22 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Topics include: women's health, cancer care, research at the Large Hadron Collider, dementia drug treatment, dermatology, skin cancer, breast cancer, smoking risks, and genetics.

       
Released: 22-Jun-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Smoking Allowed In Growing Number Of Restaurants, Bars In Georgia, School of Public Health Research Finds
Georgia State University

Despite the passage of Georgia’s Smokefree Air Act in 2005, the number of restaurants and bars that allow smoking has doubled in recent years, according to researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health.

Released: 22-Jun-2015 4:05 AM EDT
Smoking Around Your Toddler Could Be Just as Bad as Smoking While Pregnant
Universite de Montreal

Children whose parents smoked when they were toddlers are likely to have a wider waist and a higher BMI by time they reach ten years of age, reveal researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte Justine Research Centre.

Released: 19-Jun-2015 3:00 PM EDT
Latina Women Undergoing Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Need More Culturally Relevant, Language-Specific Stress Management Tools
Moffitt Cancer Center

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers, along with collaborators at the University of South Florida, recently published a study about the attitudes and cultural perspectives of Latinas undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. The article also discusses their cancer experiences and the ways they manage stress associated with cancer.

15-Jun-2015 12:00 PM EDT
How to Wipe Out Polio and Prevent Its Re-Emergence
University of Michigan

Public health officials stand poised to eliminate polio from the planet. But a new study shows that the job won't be over when the last case of the horrible paralytic disease is recorded.

Released: 19-Jun-2015 9:30 AM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 19 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Topics include: treating advanced skin cancer, big data and bioenergy, cancer research, 10 reasons to eat quinoa, sleep issues in the nursing field, advances in cancer surgery, genes for sleep, brain receptor for cocaine addiction, and nano imaging on insect adaptations.

       
17-Jun-2015 4:05 PM EDT
Team Shows AIDS Vaccine Candidate Successfully ‘Primes’ Immune System
Scripps Research Institute

New research led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and The Rockefeller University shows in mice that an experimental vaccine candidate designed at TSRI can stimulate the immune system activity necessary to stop HIV infection.

Released: 17-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Acid-Reducing Medications Sharply Raise Risk of C. Diff. Bacteria Infection in Kids
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Infants and children who are given prescription acid-reducing medications face a substantially higher risk of developing Clostridium difficile infection, a potentially severe colonic disorder.

Released: 16-Jun-2015 7:05 PM EDT
More Dialysis Patients Living in Poor Neighborhoods
Loyola Medicine

The percentage of adults beginning kidney dialysis who lived in zip codes with high poverty rates increased from 27.4 percent during the 1995-2004 time period to 34 percent in 2005-2010.

15-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Experts: Risk of Hepatitis E Outbreak ‘Very High’ in Earthquake-Ravaged Nepal
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

During the coming monsoon season, survivors of the recent earthquake that destroyed parts of Nepal face a “very high” risk of a hepatitis E outbreak that could be especially deadly to pregnant women, according to a consensus statement from a group of infectious disease experts from around the world.

Released: 16-Jun-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 16 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: An anonymous donor for cancer research, solar storms and incidences of rheumatoid arthritis, vulnerabilities in genome’s ‘Dimmer Switches’, new treatments for Alzheimer's, How people make decisions for or against flu vaccinations.

       
Released: 16-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
New Target May Increase Odds of Successful Mosquito-Based Malaria Vaccine
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have located a new – and likely more promising, they say – target for a potential vaccine against malaria, a mosquito-borne illness that kills as many as 750,000 people each year.

Released: 15-Jun-2015 5:05 PM EDT
Trending Stories Report for 15 June 2015
Newswise Trends

Trending news releases with the most views in a single day. Topics include: new drug for heart disease, astronomy, sleep, stroke, diabetes, materials science, MERS, and U.S. Politics.

       
12-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Majority of Adults Favor Ban on Powdered Alcohol, Concerned It Would Increase Underage Drinking
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Adults across the country share the same top concern about the new alcohol-on-the-go product: potential misuse among underage youth.

8-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Embargoed AJPH Research: Smoke-Free Laws, Sleeping Pills and Car Crashes, Indoor Tanning Warnings
American Public Health Association (APHA)

In this month’s release, find new embargoed research about smoke-free laws and reports of asthma symptoms; sleeping pills and car crash risk; and warning messages in indoor tanning facilities.

9-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Connecticut Handgun Licensing Law Associated with 40 Percent Drop in Gun Homicides
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license – contingent on passing a background check – in order to purchase a handgun was associated with a 40 percent reduction in the state’s firearm-related homicide rate, new research suggests.

Released: 10-Jun-2015 3:05 PM EDT
Report: 1 in 4 Baltimore Residents Live in a Food Desert
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A new report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), in collaboration with the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, found that one in four of the city’s residents live in so-called food deserts with limited access to healthy foods.

Released: 10-Jun-2015 3:05 PM EDT
1 in 4 School Children Exposed to Violence from Weapons, Study Finds
Dick Jones Communications

The study, recently featured in the American Academy of Pediatrics Journal, reports one in four U.S. school children between the ages of 6-17 have been exposed to violence involving a weapon in their lifetime as either a victim or a witness. Those weapons included guns, knives, rocks and sticks.

8-Jun-2015 12:05 PM EDT
Common Antibiotic May Be the Answer to Many Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections
UC San Diego Health

Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences report that the common antibiotic azithromycin kills many multidrug-resistant bacteria very effectively — when tested under conditions that closely resemble the human body and its natural antimicrobial factors. The researchers believe the finding, published June 10 by EBioMedicine, could prompt an immediate review of the current standard of care for patients with certain so-called “superbug” infections.

9-Jun-2015 4:35 PM EDT
Single-Dose HPV Vaccine Could Prevent Most Cervical Cancers
University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

A research paper published in The Lancet Oncology showed that a single dose of the human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix® may prevent HPV-related cervical cancer.

Released: 9-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Probiotics: Hype or Help?
Saint Louis University Medical Center

Christine Hachem, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at Saint Louis University, reports that patients seem to be embracing probiotics, even as antibiotic use is increasing and over-utilized.

Released: 9-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Vanderbilt Study Suggests Improvements for ‘Care Transitions’ in Hospitals
Vanderbilt University

Shift changes and movements of patients between different parts of a hospital are vulnerable times when mistakes are made, and a study from Vanderbilt University offers suggestions to offset the risk.

3-Jun-2015 8:00 AM EDT
Some Hospitals Marking Up Prices More Than 1,000 Percent
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The 50 hospitals in the United States with the highest markup of prices over their actual costs are charging out-of-network patients and the uninsured, as well as auto and workers’ compensation insurers, more than 10 times the costs allowed by Medicare, new research suggests. It’s a markup of more than 1,000 percent for the same medical services.

Released: 8-Jun-2015 4:00 PM EDT
Antibody Response Linked To Lower Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission
Duke Health

How most babies are protected from acquiring HIV from their infected mothers has been a matter of scientific controversy. Now researchers at Duke Medicine provide new data identifying an antibody response that had long been discounted as inadequate to confer protection.

Released: 8-Jun-2015 2:05 PM EDT
Amount of Time New Yorkers Spend Sitting Around Far Exceeds Healthy Levels
NYU Langone Health

The Big Apple is one of the most walkable cities in the nation, providing many opportunities for physical activity, and New Yorkers are more likely to exercise regularly than the average U.S. adult. But they are also sitting far more than what is considered healthy.

Released: 8-Jun-2015 11:00 AM EDT
Virus Evolution and Human Behavior Shape Global Patterns of Flu Movement
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

The global movement patterns of all four seasonal influenza viruses are illustrated in research published today in the journal Nature, providing a detailed account of country-to-country virus spread over the last decade and revealing unexpected differences in circulation patterns between viruses.

Released: 8-Jun-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Many Newly Licensed Drivers Don't Know How to Drive
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Researchers say that the ability to "diagnose" the skills teen drivers lack may provide opportunities for better driving practice in a safe environment, so that teens are better prepared to navigate hazardous situations when they take to the road alone.

2-Jun-2015 11:05 AM EDT
Your Viral Infection History in a Single Drop of Blood
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)

New technology developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers makes it possible to test for current and past infections with any known human virus by analyzing a single drop of a person's blood. The method, called VirScan, is an efficient alternative to existing diagnostics that test for specific viruses one at a time.

Released: 4-Jun-2015 9:05 AM EDT
Air Pollution Below EPA Standards Linked with Higher Death Rates
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

A new study by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that death rates among people over 65 are higher in zip codes with more fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) than in those with lower levels of PM2.5.

   


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