No easy answers on best heart check-up for young athletes
Screening may not detect potential problems
DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Youth Sports
Lauran Neergaard
Ultrasound jiggles open brain barrier, a step to better care
WASHINGTON – A handful of Alzheimer’s patients signed up for a bold experiment: They let scientists beam sound waves into the brain to temporarily jiggle an opening in its protective shield....
DATE: Jul 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Bird flu hot spot: Scientists track virus in huge migration
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Huge flocks of famished birds scour the sands of Delaware Bay for the tiny greenish eggs an army of horseshoe crabs lays every spring.
It’s a marvel of eco...
DATE: Jul 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
New evidence that viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s
WASHINGTON – Viruses that sneak into the brain just might play a role in Alzheimer’s, scientists reported Thursday in a provocative study that promises to re-ignite some long-debated theorie...
DATE: Jun 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
NIH ends alcohol study, citing funding, credibility problems
WASHINGTON – The U.S. government is shutting down a study that was supposed to show if a single drink a day could prevent heart attacks, saying ethical problems with how the research was pla...
DATE: Jun 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
U.S. seeking 1 million for massive study of DNA, health habits
WASHINGTON – Wanted: A million people willing to share their DNA and 10 years of health habits, big and small, for science.
On Sunday, the U.S. government will open nationwide enr...
DATE: May 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Portable test helps identify refugees at risk of outbreaks
WASHINGTON – Call it a lab in a box: Researchers created a device about the size of a toaster that can test a drop of blood to tell, in about half an hour, who’s immune to certain infections...
DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Warming, not cooling, donated livers may improve transplants
WASHINGTON – Surgeons pack donated organs on ice while racing them to transplant patients but it may be time for a warmer approach. British researchers said Wednesday that keeping at least s...
DATE: Apr 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Organs from drug overdoses could help transplant shortage
WASHINGTON – Fatal drug overdoses are increasing organ donations, and researchers reported Monday that people who receive those transplants generally fare as well as patients given organs fr...
DATE: Apr 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Study finds obesity robs the tongue of taste buds in mice
WASHINGTON – Packing on pounds seems to dull people’s sense of taste, and puzzled researchers turned to mice to figure out why: Obesity, they found, can rob the tongue of taste buds. ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Abortion is safe but barriers reduce quality of care, report says
WASHINGTON – Abortions in the U.S. are very safe but getting one without facing delays and false medical information depends on where women live, says a broad examination of the nation’s abo...
DATE: Mar 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
Push to better track living kidney donors’ long-term health
WASHINGTON – The big unknown when someone donates a kidney: The long-term health consequences. Now the U.S. is taking a step toward finally tracking how living donors fare over decades – jus...
DATE: Feb 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Health
