Archive: 10/11/2017
Sex and violence: the roots of Mexico's teen pregnancy problem
Claudia Colimoro still remembers the day she met Rosa, a 12-year-old girl sent to the shelter she runs after being sold into sex slavery twice and getting pregnant for the second time.
Nov 10, 2017
Common genetic fusion event may be associated with low-risk prostate cancer
Establishing the way in which a genetic alteration called a TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion forms in a prostate cancer, rather than the presence of the gene fusion itself, could help identify patients with prostate cancer with a ...
Nov 10, 2017
Bad break: Osteoporosis-related bone fractures linked to air pollution
Exposure to air pollution is associated with osteoporosis-related loss of bone mineral density and risk of bone fractures, according to a new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. ...
Nov 10, 2017
Nitric oxide: Experimental analysis of its role in brain tissue in simulated ischemia
A joint study conducted by scientists at the National Academy of Sciences in Belarus and Kazan Federal University in Russia, looks at the role of nitric oxide (NO) in brain tissue in simulated ischemia in rats.
Nov 10, 2017
Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) lowers 30-day readmission rates
The Hospital Elder Life Program, or HELP, is an evidence-based treatment plan developed in the 1990s to prevent hospitalized older adults from developing delirium (the medical term for sudden confusion). Delirium can cause ...
Nov 10, 2017
Report from groundbreaking 'EndoVators Summit' offers guidance for obesity treatment
A recently published white paper from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Association for Bariatric Endoscopy (ABE) breaks new ground in defining the role and value of the latest approaches ...
Nov 10, 2017