Cities are experimenting with new ways to meet the rapidly increasing demand for behavioral health crisis intervention, at a time when incidents of police shooting and killing people in mental health crisis have become painfully familiar…

If someone has been in cardiac arrest for 10 minutes, the brain is permanently damaged and there’s nothing to do, right? Not so according to emerging evidence that suggests that the brain shows signs of electrical recovery for as long as an hour into ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR…

MedPage Today) — Science is like baseball. To score a run — to convincingly show that a drug or intervention is safe and effective — all the bases have to be rounded. In the case of science, the bases frequently include, in stepwise progression…

Credit: Jsme MILA from Pexels Research led by Claudia Cooper, Professor of Psychological Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, shows that a new therapy, NIDUS-Family, helps people with dementia and their family caregivers attain their personal goals. The NIDUS-family package of care and support focuses on practical changes people can make, with sessions designed

Native Americans die by suicide at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group, yet research into effective and culturally appropriate interventions is uncommon…

Treating patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) successfully, and earlier, can substantially offset their risk for long-term disability and the need for eventual surgical intervention. However, monitoring whether that treatment is successfully achieving its goals traditionally relies on endoscopy and all of its inherent limitations. The possibility that serum and fecal biomarkers of disease activity might

The FDA-cleared tool can help at-risk provider organizations reduce costs while improving patient outcomes through earlier lifestyle and treatment interventions, its inventors say…

Credit: Caroline Wild/George Washington University An arterial inflammatory disease called atherosclerosis is the United States’ leading cause of death, but about half of American adults over 45 have the condition and don’t know it, according to the National Institutes of Health. Characterized by plaque buildup inside the arteries, the vascular superhighways that push blood from

Structured Graphical Abstract Effects of 1-year resistance, aerobic, or combined exercise training on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk profile: the CardioRACE trial. Aerobic exercise alone or combined aerobic plus resistance exercise, but not resistance exercise alone, improved CVD risk profile (composite Z-score) compared with no-exercise control (Z-score values below 0 indicate favorable changes in CVD risk

Mansoor Amiji, University Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemical Engineering at Northeastern. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University One of the great promises in the field of cancer immunotherapy is the emergence of cancer vaccines. Unlike traditional vaccines that are tailored to infectious diseases, cancer vaccines work by teaching the immune system to