Archive: 05/04/2016
Study results show bypass surgery extends lives of patients with heart failure
Scientists funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health have found that a greater number of patients with coronary artery disease may benefit from coronary artery bypass ...
Apr 5, 2016
Video: Computational behavioral science develops tools, methods to reach children with autism
Lexie is an active, healthy 2-year-old and already lending a hand, or more specifically her wrist, to science. She's helping researchers test sensors designed to gauge something particularly difficult to measure scientifically—emotional ...
Apr 5, 2016
More effective communication among care team may lessen delays in care, allow for shorter hospitalization
Patients whose hospital care providers used mobile secure text-messaging as a means of communication had shorter lengths-of stay compared to patients whose providers used the standard paging system to communicate, according ...
Apr 5, 2016
Breakthrough allows drug delivery for brain diseases, cancers
Cornell researchers have discovered a way to open one of the major barriers to the brain, called the blood brain barrier (BBB), which prevents the entry of therapies to treat brain disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Apr 5, 2016
New non-invasive method for studying the development of insulin-producing cells
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have produced a unique method for monitoring the development of insulin-producing cells, which play a key part in regulating blood glucose ...
Apr 5, 2016