Good patient information is essential for choosing the best treatment for the kidney disease lupus nephritis. Dutch researcher Cecile Grootscholten concludes this following her doctoral research into two methods for treating lupus nephritis.
Even though HIV can be well treated these days, drug users are still more cautious about using needles than they used to be. That is the conclusion of Colette Smit following her study into 25 years of HIV in the Netherlands.
Elsevier announced today the inaugural issue of a new journal, Molecular Oncology ? a journal for discovery-driven translational cancer research, published by Elsevier on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS).
A stroke strikes someone in America every 45 seconds. When a stroke happens, every second counts. If you see someone having a stroke, call 911 immediately.
According to the American Cancer Society, about 440,000 people die in the United States from smoking-related illnesses every year.
Consumer Reports ranked “The Volumetrics Eating Plan,” based on research by Barbara Rolls, the holder of the Guthrie Chair of Nutrition at Penn State, as the top-rated diet in its new June issue, released today (May 8).
Exposure to trauma may create enough changes in the brain to sensitize people to overreact to an innocuous facial gesture years later, even in people who don?t have a stress-related disorder, says new research.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center have found that while most pediatric residents have broached the subject of ending life support in terminally ill children, many feel neither comfortable nor sufficiently trained to discuss it.
High blood pressure in children often goes unnoticed at the doctor?s office, and many children go home without follow-up or treatment, suggests a study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center.
The Harford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing, in collaboration with the American Journal of Nursing, has been awarded a $2,622,560 grant from The John A Hartford Foundation to produce and distribute demonstration videos and a companion series of journal articles for teaching nurses the use of geriatric health assessment tools. Terra Nova Films will partner with AJN to produce the videos.