Category: 4. Health

A lot of research has been done on the outcomes of young children who receive care in early education programs across the country. High-quality early childhood education programs positively shape young children’s development. Far less research has focused on the early childhood workforce that powers these programs.

We set out to better understand how to support workers who care for our youngest and most vulnerable children.

Workers who provide care for children under 5, such as…

Morphine has been the mainstay for treating pain since the Civil War. Although doctors recognized long ago that prolonged use of morphine can lead to addiction, nothing changed…

What’s your idea of fun? How about getting a medical test and waiting for the test results? Yeah, few people would take a medical test just for the fun of it or simply to “get away from it all.” Typically, when you undergo a medical test, it is to look for something in you. And that…

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers describe how this drug compound provides pain relief without the dangerous side effects commonly associated with opioids administered to patients. The National Institutes of Health funded the study.

The human body…

Every day in emergency departments around the world, the toll of aging is evident: falls, fractures, strokes, and heart attacks in older adults. Even when patients survive the initial event, hospital stays are often prolonged. Rehabilitation may follow, but in many cases, the result is a permanent loss of independence. These outcomes are frequently the consequence of…

The death of a second child from measles is raising alarm bells anew that an ongoing outbreak of the highly contagious disease is larger than official numbers suggest. And it comes at a time when the Trump administration’s widespread cuts to public health funding and jobs are gutting the ability to tackle infectious diseases.

The child, who died April 3 from measles pulmonary failure, was unvaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, Texas health officials announced…

Chronic disease prevention is a noble goal. And it’s one the Secretary of…

A woman in the U.K. has become the first in the country to give birth after receiving a womb transplant from her sister.

Grace Davidson, 36 gave birth on February 27th to a healthy baby girl via caesarean section at hospital in the U.K. At 19, Davidson was diagnosed with a rare condition called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, meaning her womb was either missing or not developed properly. The condition…