Patients with closer-knit social networks, including family members and spouses, were more likely to delay seeking hospital care for a…
Alarming Trends in Mortality from Firearms Among United States Schoolchildren
Mortality from firearms among US schoolchildren is an increasingly major clinical and public health crisis. We explored temporal trends in…
Heal Me With Plants
Gentle gardening helps patients at some hospitals relax and recover.
Heal Me With Plants
Gentle gardening helps patients at some hospitals relax and recover.
Scientists home in on microRNA processing for novel cancer therapies
More than a decade of research on the mda-7/IL-24 gene has shown that it helps to suppress a majority of…
Anxiety-associated brain regions regulate threat responses in monkeys
Damage to parts of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a region within the prefrontal cortex, heightens monkeys’ defensive responses to threat,…
Diabetes treatment may keep dementia, Alzheimer’s at bay
A new study comparing people with diabetes, prediabetes and normal blood sugar finds that diabetes, left untreated, could mean a…
Surge in cannabis use among youth preceded legalization in Canada
National discussions on cannabis legalization, along with increased access to medical marijuana, may have encouraged more high school students to…
Why immunotherapy is not effective for some patients with metastatic melanoma and kidney cancer
White blood cells known as B cells have been shown to be effective for predicting which cancer patients will respond…
A viable alternative to Medicare-for-all?
Medicare-for-all, a solution that would bring United States healthcare policies more in line with other industrial nations, faces strong opposition…