by Research Team | Jan 5, 2016 | Health News
The first two months of the flu season have been mild in Utah, but health officials are cautioning that it’s likely to get worse over the next two months. Only 34 people have been hospitalized with the flu from October through Dec. 26, shows data from Utah...
by Research Team | Jan 5, 2016 | Health News
The first time Kirstyn Chun heard the word “gay” was in the mid-1980s when her mother was reading a newspaper article about the AIDS crisis. To say it was a negative portrayal of gay men is an understatement, said Chun, a psychologist at Cal State Long Beach, who also...
by Research Team | Jan 5, 2016 | Health News
The treatment works like a vaccine. It takes a cancer patient’s tumor cells and uses them in a specialized, monthly injection.
by Research Team | Jan 5, 2016 | Health News
Monica Towns of Davison has renal disease and needed a kidney transplant. Doctors discovered that the best candidate was her 25-year-old fiance, Jacob Pierson.
by Research Team | Jan 5, 2016 | Health News
There’s a name for the inability to take pleasure in activities you once found enjoyable, the subject of countless commercials for depression medications: anhedonia. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, scientists stimulated the brains of rats...
by Research Team | Jan 5, 2016 | Health News
This 3-part, 5 1/2 hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the era it encompassed. The culmination of nearly a century of activism, Prohibition...
