This year’s success was due in large part to a record $530 million in spending on projects funded by the federal government and nearly $200 million in state and local government spending. University of Florida faculty conducted a record $1.25 billion in research in fiscal year 2023, a nearly 15% increase over 2022. One year […]
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a hand-held rapid saliva test that can measure the level of THC, the major active component in marijuana, with 94% accuracy. The device, called CannibiSenS, also can distinguish between THC and CBD, a component of the cannabis plant that does not cause a psychoactive effect and is […]
Many medical studies record a patient’s race using only the broad categories from the U.S. Census, which may conceal racial health disparities, a new study reports. Researchers evaluated the performance of clinical risk scores for people of different races in an emergency department (ED). A clinical risk score summarizes the severity of a patient’s symptoms […]
Company plans to help employees access a full range of reproductive care in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court ruling, which last summer overturned federal abortion rights, have had mixed results, according to new research co-authored by a University of Maryland expert. While companies that offered out-of-state abortion travel benefits enjoyed a substantial […]
Glioblastoma is a swift and aggressive brain cancer, with an average life expectancy of about one year after diagnosis. It’s difficult to treat, in part because the cellular makeup of each tumor varies greatly from person to person. “Because of the heterogeneity of this disease, scientists haven’t found good ways of tackling it,” said Olivier […]
Two troubling trends are converging for older adults—heavier drinking and rising rates of heart failure and now University of Maryland public health researchers will explore whether they are linked. Funded by a $406,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the National Institutes of Health), health policy and management Assistant […]
Skin diseases do not look the same across the skin-tone spectrum, and medical textbooks and presentations used to train dermatologists often lack example images of darker skin tones. During the recent pandemic, for instance, studies showed annotated photos of COVID-19’s dermatologic symptoms lacked adequate representation of darker tones. Other research has gone so far as […]
The number of babies born with severe congenital heart defects will increase because of new U.S. abortion bans, potentially straining the health care system’s capacity to meet their needs, according to research from the Stanford School of Medicine. The study, which published Aug. 3 in Obstetrics and Gynecology, focused on a group of congenital heart […]
