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MRSA Infection Rates Drop in Veterans Affairs Long-Term Care Facilities

Jan 6, 2014 10:30 AM ET - Washington, DC, January 6, 2014 /3BL Media/ – Four years after implementing a national initiative to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates in Veterans Affairs (VA) long-term care facilities, MRSA infections have...

The Loving Touch is Critical for Premature Infants

Jan 6, 2014 8:00 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, January 6, 2014 /3BL Media/ – The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry. Physical...

I’ll Have What They’re Having: Study Finds Social Norms Influence Food Choices

Dec 30, 2013 10:30 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 30, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Is obesity a socially transmitted disease? In order to try to find out, researchers in the United Kingdom conducted a systematic review of several experimental studies, each of which examined...

A New Role for Milk: Delivering Polyphenols with Anti-Cancer Activity

Dec 19, 2013 1:00 PM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 19, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Polyphenols found in tea manifest anti-cancer effects but their use is limited by poor bioavailability and disagreeable taste. A new study in the Journal of Dairy Science® ...

Physical Inactivity After Cardiac Surgery Linked With Substantially Higher Risk of Depression

Dec 19, 2013 7:50 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 19, 2013 /3BL Media/ – New research indicates that inactive patients following cardiac surgery have a substantially higher risk of depression and that the number of patients suffering from depression...

Hippocampal Volume Loss in Depression Reflects Glial Loss

Dec 17, 2013 8:00 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 17, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Depression has been associated with reduced volume of the hippocampus in magnetic resonance imaging studies in humans. A new study just published in Biological Psychiatry...

Canadian Cardiovascular Society Issues Guidelines to Improve Early Diagnosis and Effective Treatment of Heart Failure in Children

Dec 12, 2013 6:45 PM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Heart failure in children is an important cause of childhood health problems and death. The Children’s Heart Failure Study Group of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, in collaboration with the...

epic3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England

Dec 12, 2013 8:15 AM ET - Camden, UK, December 12, 2013 /3BL Media/ - The Journal of Hospital Infection (JHI) has just released the awaited epic3...

New Diagnostic Test Can Detect Chlamydia Trachomatis in Less Than 20 Minutes

Dec 12, 2013 8:00 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Researchers have developed a new assay for rapid and sensitive detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in humans. This procedure takes...

Enzyme BACE1 May Be Important in Predicting Onset of Alzheimer Disease

Dec 12, 2013 7:55 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 12, 2013 /3BL Media/ – The critical enzyme beta-secretase1 (BACE1) is known to be elevated in brains with sporadic Alzheimer disease (AD). Scientists have now found increased levels of BACE1 in brains with mild...

Majority of Americans Avoid Addressing End-of-Life Issues, According to New Study

Dec 10, 2013 8:00 AM ET - San Diego, CA, December 10, 2013 /3BL Media/ – During the past two decades, high-profile legal cases surrounding end-of-life decisions have received widespread attention in the United States, prompting increased media focus and numerous debates...

Reproductive Health Matters Announces Publication of its Latest Themed Issue: New Development Paradigms Post 2015: Critical Analysis

Dec 9, 2013 10:45 AM ET - London, December 9, 2013 /3BL Media/ – The world is still underfunding health: so what kind of new development paradigm will succeed in ensuring comprehensive and equitable health care for all, and where will sexual and reproductive health and...

Counting the Cost of Infertility Treatment

Dec 9, 2013 9:05 AM ET - New York, NY, December 9, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Although the demand for infertility treatment is rising, the high cost may deter some couples from seeking care. Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco assessed direct out-of-...

Supporting Healthy Communities

Dec 4, 2013 1:30 PM ET - Although the link between mining and community health is not always obvious, it surely exists. As with any organization, successful workforces require strong, healthy employees and support for the local communities in which they live. For this...

New Report on Stem Cell Research Reveals the Field is Growing Twice as Fast as The World Average

Dec 4, 2013 10:25 AM ET - San Diego, CA, December 4, 2013/3BL Media/ – Elsevier, EuroStemCell, and Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell...

Depression in Pregnant Mothers May Alter the Pattern of Brain Development in Their Babies

Dec 4, 2013 7:45 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 4, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Depression is a serious mental illness that has many negative consequences for sufferers. But depression among pregnant women may also have an impact on their developing babies. Children of...

Bothersome Pain Afflicts Half of Older Americans

Dec 3, 2013 8:45 AM ET - Philadelphia, December 3, 2013 /3BL Media/ – More than half of older adults in the United States – an estimated 18.7 million people – have experienced bothersome pain in the previous month, impairing their physical function and underscoring the...

Prescription Opioid Abusers Prefer to Get High on Oxycodone and Hydrocodone

Dec 3, 2013 8:15 AM ET - Philadelphia, December 3, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic levels in the past 15 years. Scientists investigating why people favor one drug over another have found that oxycodone and hydrocodone are the drugs of...

Talk Therapy May Reverse Biological Changes in PTSD Patients

Dec 3, 2013 8:00 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 3, 2013 /3BL Media/ – A new paper published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) not only reduces symptoms but also affects the underlying...

Increased Risk for Cardiac Ischemia in Patients with PTSD

Dec 2, 2013 11:00 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, December 2, 2013 /3BL Media/ – There is growing concern that long-term untreated posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms may increase the risk of developing a number of medical problems, particularly compromised...

Drug Regimen May Eliminate Colonization With Superbug CRE

Nov 27, 2013 8:15 AM ET - Washington, DC, November 26, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Orally administered, nonabsorbable antibiotics were effective in eradicating carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) colonization, according to a new...

mTOR: A Key Brain Signaling Mechanism For Rapidly Acting Antidepressants

Nov 19, 2013 7:50 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, November 19, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Two years ago, mammalian target of rapamycin or mTOR, a signaling protein, was identified as a key mediator of the antidepressant effects of ketamine, the first rapidly acting antidepressant...

Would an “Anti-Ketamine” Also Treat Depression?

Nov 18, 2013 7:55 AM ET - Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Thirteen years ago, an article in this journal first reported that the anesthetic medication, ketamine, showed evidence of producing rapid antidepressant effects in depressed patients who had not...

ISHLT Finalizes New Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation

Nov 18, 2013 7:50 AM ET - New York, NY, November 18, 2013 /3BL Media/ – Antibody-mediated rejection of the transplanted heart is a recognized clinical complication and a major limitation to survival of patients who have undergone heart transplantation. Experts have now...

Nonprofits in the Nation’s Capital Combat Domestic Violence Against Youth and Adults, With Funding From the Verizon Foundation

Nov 15, 2013 2:45 PM ET - D.C. Councilmember Anita Bonds and Verizon Join in Special Ceremony for Groups as Survivors Share Their Stories, Tell How Nonprofits Change Lives WASHINGTON, November 15, 2013 /3BL Media/ – In an effort to raise...

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Latest News & Content

MRSA Infection Rates Drop in Veterans Affairs Long-Term Care Facilities

The Loving Touch is Critical for Premature Infants

I’ll Have What They’re Having: Study Finds Social Norms Influence Food Choices

A New Role for Milk: Delivering Polyphenols with Anti-Cancer Activity

Physical Inactivity After Cardiac Surgery Linked With Substantially Higher Risk of Depression

Hippocampal Volume Loss in Depression Reflects Glial Loss

Canadian Cardiovascular Society Issues Guidelines to Improve Early Diagnosis and Effective Treatment of Heart Failure in Children

epic3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England

New Diagnostic Test Can Detect Chlamydia Trachomatis in Less Than 20 Minutes

Enzyme BACE1 May Be Important in Predicting Onset of Alzheimer Disease

Majority of Americans Avoid Addressing End-of-Life Issues, According to New Study

Reproductive Health Matters Announces Publication of its Latest Themed Issue: New Development Paradigms Post 2015: Critical Analysis

Counting the Cost of Infertility Treatment

Supporting Healthy Communities

New Report on Stem Cell Research Reveals the Field is Growing Twice as Fast as The World Average

Depression in Pregnant Mothers May Alter the Pattern of Brain Development in Their Babies

Bothersome Pain Afflicts Half of Older Americans

Prescription Opioid Abusers Prefer to Get High on Oxycodone and Hydrocodone

Talk Therapy May Reverse Biological Changes in PTSD Patients

Increased Risk for Cardiac Ischemia in Patients with PTSD

Drug Regimen May Eliminate Colonization With Superbug CRE

mTOR: A Key Brain Signaling Mechanism For Rapidly Acting Antidepressants

Would an “Anti-Ketamine” Also Treat Depression?

ISHLT Finalizes New Nomenclature and Diagnostic Criteria for Antibody-Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation

Nonprofits in the Nation’s Capital Combat Domestic Violence Against Youth and Adults, With Funding From the Verizon Foundation

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