The fourth annual Exercise is Medicine® Month kicks off on Sunday, celebrating the health benefits of exercise and offering resources to get people moving. “Everyone should start or renew an exercise program now as an investment in life-long health,” said Robert E. Sallis, M.D., FACSM, chair of Exercise is Medicine…
Researchers eavesdropping on complex signals emanating from a remote Wisconsin lake have detected what they say is an unmistakable warning - a death knell - of the impending collapse of the lake’s aquatic ecosystem…
So you think your allergies this spring are worse than ever? It may not be your imagination, says Jeff Stokes, M.D., an associate professor of medicine with Creighton University School of Medicine and allergist/immunologist with Creighton Medical Associates. Stokes says that rising temperatures have lengthened the spring allergy season, because plants are pollinating longer…
With spring here and summer on the way, children are back on the field and ready to score one for the team. Unfortunately, this also means more opportunities for injury, from simple twisted ankles to serious concussions. Approximately 2 million high school athletes are injured every year, with 500,000 needing doctor’s visits and 30,000 needing hospitalization…
So you think your allergies this spring are worse than ever? It may not be your imagination, says Jeff Stokes, M.D., an associate professor of medicine with Creighton University School of Medicine and allergist/immunologist with Creighton Medical Associates. Stokes says that rising temperatures have lengthened the spring allergy season, because plants are pollinating longer…
Peter Weller, MD, Chief of both the Division of Allergy and Inflammation and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), is the recipient of an NIH MERIT award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
One of the world’s top neuroscience institutes has teamed up with the NHL Alumni on a study that will track the brain health of retired NHL players over several years…
Peter Weller, MD, Chief of both the Division of Allergy and Inflammation and the Division of Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), is the recipient of an NIH MERIT award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases…
Fables have long cast scorpions as bad-natured killers of hapless turtles that naively agree to ferry them across rivers. Michigan State University scientists, however, see them in a different light. Ke Dong, MSU insect toxicologist and neurobiologist, studied the effects of scorpion venom with the hopes of finding new ways to protect plants from bugs…
University of Alberta-led research has confirmed that a relatively harmless inorganic form of mercury found worldwide in ocean water is transformed into a potent neurotoxin in the seawater itself…