An executive order increasing the minimum wage will have minimal benefit, said Peter Orazem, a University Professor of economics at Iowa State University. In fact, Orazem said increasing the wage for all employees would do little to help workers or the economy.
Tulane University's Grand Challenge "Water Innovations: Reducing Hypoxia, Restoring our Water" will seek technical market based solutions to combat hypoxia, a deadly deficiency of oxygen in water created by the excessive growth of phytoplankton. The team with the best solution will win $1 million.
New MIT vaccines that catch a ride to immune cell depots could help fight cancer and HIV
UC Riverside baseball players who participated in novel brain-training research saw significant improvement in vision, resulting in fewer strikeouts and more hits. The experiment demonstrated that improvements from a multiple perceptual-learning approach transfer to real-world tasks.
The Immune Tolerance Network’s (ITN) HALT-MS study, 24 patients with relapsing, remitting multiple sclerosis received high-dose immunosuppression followed by a transplant of their own stem cells. Data published today quantified and characterized T cell populations following this aggressive regimen.
Penn Medicine, in partnership with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, today announced a new opportunity for photographers to have their work displayed in a unique setting. Up to 25 images depicting the theme “Impressions of Philadelphia” will be selected for a large format wall display (approximately 19x19 feet) in public concourse areas of the new Pavilion for Advanced Care (PAC) at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. In addition, prizes will be awarded for Best in Show ($5,000) and Top 5 ($1,000 each).
The new Sanford Health Dickinson Clinic, which is replacing the existing Sanford Health Dickinson Clinic, is now open.
A simple fall at the playground can have far greater health consequences for children who are obese
A team of University of Alabama at Birmingham faculty and students have created a free, downloadable smartphone application to help health care providers and cancer patients identify more than 500 valuable community resources for people in North Central Alabama battling cancer.
When a team goes on a multi-game winning streak, it has nothing to do with momentum, according to a new study in the journal Economics Letters. By examining varsity college hockey teams winning and losing record, Cornell University researchers discovered that that momentum advantages don’t exist.
UT Southwestern Medical Center has been funded to establish a Center for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research that supports and conducts high-quality research comparing the outcomes and effectiveness of different strategies to prevent, diagnose, treat, and monitor health conditions to improve patient care.
Many mothers with children on life-sustaining medical devices, such as ventilators and breathing or feeding tubes, suffer physical and psychological distress from the stress of juggling treatments, appointments, therapies and daily family pressures. A pilot study tested an intervention to help them cope.
Anastasia Fischer, MD, a physician in Sports Medicine at Nationwide Children’s, says female athlete triad syndrome is more prevalent than previously realized. The female athlete triad has three interrelated components: disordered eating low energy availability (often caused by not eating appropriately), dysmenorrhea (change in a girl's period), and low bone mineral density.
New research finds that a protein that fuels an inflammatory pathway does not turn off in breast cancer, resulting in an increase in cancer stem cells. This provides a potential target for treating triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease.
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