CDC report card: Good, bad marks on target battles
Three years ago, the nation's top public health agency picked its key battles. Now, its first report card on reaching those goals gives it a grade of pretty good but needs improvement.
Nov 21, 2013
Archive: 21/11/2013
Certain measures can help predict older dialysis patients' prognoses
Simple measures of the severity of an older kidney failure patient's illness when starting dialysis—such as whether dialysis was initiated in an inpatient setting, the length of the patient's hospital stay, and the use ...
Nov 21, 2013
Dreading pain can be worse than pain itself
Faced with inevitable pain, most people choose to "get it out of the way" as soon as possible, according to research published this week in PLOS Computational Biology. In the study, which was conducted from the Institute ...
Nov 21, 2013
Study provides first Class 1 evidence for cognitive rehabilitation in MS
Kessler Foundation researchers published the results of the MEMREHAB Trial in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, providing the first Class I evidence for the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation ...
Nov 21, 2013
Study of fluke parasites identifies drug resistance mutations, raises hope for new therapies
An international group of scientists led by Tim Anderson Ph.D., at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Philip LoVerde Ph.D., at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has identified the mutations ...
Nov 21, 2013
Canada: Vancouver shows doorknobs the door
The city of Vancouver has banned doorknobs in new construction, a city official said Thursday.
Nov 21, 2013
