(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON – A pioneering study published today in AACC’s The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine has established transgender reference intervals for common clinical laboratory tests.
Category: Research
Pioneering New Gambling Harms Research Centre Launched
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – London, 17 May 2022: The first academic research centre in Great Britain specialising in new and multidisciplinary approaches to gambling harms has launched at University of Bristol.
Checklist for Staying Healthy Overseas
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If you’re planning an international trip this year, you’re already managing an extensive checklist to help you remember to find your passport, book flights and research local attractions.
Researcher Aims to Protect and Regenerate Corals Through Coral Genomics with $500K NSF Grant and Award-Winning Video
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A Rutgers researcher will use genomics, genetics, and cell biology to identify and understand the corals’ response to heat stress conditions and to pinpoint master regulatory genes involved in coral bleaching due to global warming and climate change.
Cheers – Five More Years
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An initiative that helps businesses transform New Mexico national laboratories’ technologies into viable products and services will continue driving innovations to market into 2027.
Identify Novel Approach to Preventing Seizures
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have announced a significant advance in our understanding of epilepsy, as they have identified a potential method of preventing damaging seizure activity.
Organ Donation Facts
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The most important fact to know about organ donation is that many people who need a new kidney or liver or heart never get one.
Keeping Web-like NETs from Clogging Blood Vessels Improves Stroke Outcomes
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Preventing the formation of a sticky, web-like substance that can form in blood vessels after a stroke could protect the brain and lead to better outcomes for patients
Consider Becoming an Organ Donor
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ROCHESTER, Minn. — While 2021 proved to be a record-breaking year for organ donation in the U.S., many people are still hesitant to register to become a donor.
Tool for Predicting the Future
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Whether someone is trying to predict tomorrow’s weather, forecast future stock prices, identify missed opportunities for sales in retail, or estimate a patient’s risk of developing a disease….
LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – For the seventh consecutive time, the University of Chicago Medicine has earned the “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader” designation from the Washington D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC)
Traffic Stops and Race
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Traffic stops, which happen approximately 50,000 times each day in the United States, are the most common interaction between law enforcement and the public, according to data from the Stanford Open Policing Project.
IVF Children Shown to Have a Better Quality of Life as Adults
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Being conceived via assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as IVF, may provide some advantages in quality of life in adulthood, according to the results of a new study.
Urgent Need for More Research and Focus on Treating Pain in People with Severe Mental Illness
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A review in PAIN®, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) highlights significant ongoing challenges in the assessment….
Sugar Promotes Inflammation
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – People who consume sugar and other carbohydrates in excess over a long period of time have an increased risk of developing an autoimmune disease.
Researchers Question Influential Data Around Red Meat
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – An international team of experts, including Professor Chris Elliott of the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen’s University Belfast, has called on the influential Global Burden of Diseases….
Researchers at Forefront of Alzheimer’s Genetics and Diagnosis
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Florida Atlantic University’s Randy D. Blakely, Ph.D., and Lisa Wiese, Ph.D., have received grants from the Florida Department of Health’s Ed and Ethel Moore Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease Research….
Substance Developed Could Make Breathing a Breeze for Space Exploration
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – At elevated levels, carbon dioxide (CO2) may act as an asphyxiant by reducing normal oxygen levels in breathing air, resulting in dizziness, difficulty breathing, elevated blood pressure and heart rate, among others.
Veterinarians Investigating Unusual Bacterial Disease in Pigs
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – AMES, Iowa – Iowa State University veterinarians have taken on the role of gumshoe detectives as they investigate how an aggressive bacterial strain has spread among central Iowa pork production facilities.
Research Advances Understanding of DNA Repair
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has made a discovery that alters our understanding of how the body’s DNA repair process works and may lead to new chemotherapy treatments for cancer and other disorders.