Effective postoperative pain control using continuous peripheral nerve block reduced average length-of-stay by nearly a day, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine physicians reported during the 81st Clinical and Scientific Congress of the International Anesthesia Research Society at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Fla.
Maren Roman is taking nanocrystal research to a new level that may lead to a new generation of vaccines and better computer printer ink.
Where you live might play a bigger role in your risk for heart disease than your ethnicity or race. New research reveals that rural residents were more knowledgeable about healthy eating and heart disease risk than urban residents, but that urban residents were more motivated and optimistic about getting healthy.
High-risk surgical patients in community hospital settings can safely benefit from the use of new embolus-removing and stent-inserting systems, according to a study presented today at the American College of Cardiology?s Innovation in Intervention: i2 Summit in New Orleans, La.
Harvard Medical School researchers are working on a new, simpler way to distinguish malignant tumors from non-cancerous masses when screening for breast cancer.
Giving up smoking can reduce the risk of dying from the disease by up to 70 percent, new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology this week shows.
People purchase foods based on their income level, their belief in a food?s health benefit and cost. However, ethnicity and gender also impact people?s food choices, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The rail-thin blonde bombshell on the cover of a magazine makes all women feel badly about their own bodies despite the size, shape, height or age of the viewers.
Chemists at the University of South Carolina are developing a consumer test kit that people can use to quickly and accurately determine if food products are spoiled or safe to eat.
Children who received higher quality child care before entering kindergarten had better vocabularies through the fifth grade than those who received lower quality care, the latest findings in a long-term study, co-authored by a professor at The University of Texas at Dallas, suggests.