Archive: 25/04/2016

Stark Medicare Advantage disparities present in Puerto Rico

As Puerto Rico suffers through an ongoing financial crisis and recent credit default, and its Medicare Advantage (MA) plans receive 40% lower payment rates than those in the mainland U.S., a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine ...

Apr 25, 2016

Chronic inflammation leads to imbalanced blood system and potentially cancer risk

A study published today in the journal Nature Cell Biology shows that chronic exposure to an inflammatory "emergency" signal, interleukin-1, causes blood-forming bone marrow stem cells to produce cells needed to fight infection ...

Apr 25, 2016

Meaning of brain scans for 'pain' called into question

Patterns of brain activity thought to show pain responses have been called into question after researchers from UCL and the University of Reading saw such patterns in rare patients born without a sense of pain.

Apr 25, 2016

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Effort to detect, isolate asymptomatic C. difficile carriers linked to lower incidence

An intervention at a Canadian acute care facility to screen and isolate asymptomatic Clostridium difficile carriers was associated with decreased incidence of health-care associated C. difficile infection, a finding that ...

Apr 25, 2016

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Key mechanism identified in brain tumor growth

A gene known as OSMR plays a key role in driving the growth of glioblastoma tumors, according to a new study led by a McGill University researcher and published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Apr 25, 2016

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Are money problems and violence related?

Researchers at the University of Iowa have found an association between financial stress and severe domestic abuse, which is an important step in the effort to develop effective interventions. Their findings don't prove that ...

Apr 25, 2016

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For some cancers, risk lower among kids of non-US-born Hispanic mothers

The children of Hispanic mothers not born in the United States appeared to have a lower risk for some types of childhood cancers, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Apr 25, 2016

Study shows attitude makes a champion

On the path to greatness, why do some become champions while others fall short? Coaches, parents, and aspiring athletes have all sought to answer this question. In their search for the optimal path to greatness, some believe ...

Apr 25, 2016

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Atrophosclerodermic manifestations of lyme borreliosis

This review summarizes the literature on scleratrophic skin lesions as a manifestation of a Borrelia infection. An association of morphea with Lyme borreliosis LB was mainly reported from Middle-European Countries, Japan ...

Apr 25, 2016

New database for sharing MS clinical trial data

A new database containing nearly 2500 patient records from the placebo arms of nine multiple sclerosis (MS) clinical trials is now available for research by qualified investigators. This is just one of the tools generated ...

Apr 25, 2016

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Archive: 25/04/2016

Stark Medicare Advantage disparities present in Puerto Rico

Chronic inflammation leads to imbalanced blood system and potentially cancer risk

Meaning of brain scans for 'pain' called into question

Effort to detect, isolate asymptomatic C. difficile carriers linked to lower incidence

Key mechanism identified in brain tumor growth

Are money problems and violence related?

For some cancers, risk lower among kids of non-US-born Hispanic mothers

Study shows attitude makes a champion

Atrophosclerodermic manifestations of lyme borreliosis

New database for sharing MS clinical trial data

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