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How Puberty Prepares Adolescents For Adulthood Through Changing Face Perceptions

While the five senses help us to navigate through our world, how we perceive the faces we see is critical to becoming successful socially, says a Penn State researcher. Suzy Scherf, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience, is heading up a five-year project being funded by a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Scherf and her research team will investigate ad..(Read More)

TGen-HonorHealth Study: High Rate Of Tumor Shrinkage Among Pancreatic Cancer Patients

Adding cisplatin to the standard gemcitabine/nab-paclitaxel drug treatment provided a very high rate of tumor shrinkage for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, according to the results of a pilot clinical trial conducted by the HonorHealth Research Institute and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). These statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in ov..(Read More)

Nurse Practitioners Are Not Regularly Assessing Brain Health And Need Standardized Assessment Tools To Tegularly Conduct Critical Brain Health Assessments

Important new survey findings released today by WomenAgainstAlzheimer's and the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH) show that approximately 30% of nurse practitioners (NPs) in women's health do not raise brain health issues with patients, while only 18% of nurse practitioners occasionally broach the issues during office visits. In fact, 68% of the time, patients ar..(Read More)

Patients Who Trust The Medical Profession Are More Likely To Take Their High Blood Pressure Medicine

Patients with high blood pressure who had more trust in the medical profession were more likely to take their high blood pressure medicine than those with less trust, according to a new study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2017. Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles found that patients who had higher lev..(Read More)

Shared Decision-Making Is Cornerstone Of Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

One of the cornerstones of multiple sclerosis treatment is shared decision-making between patients and their doctors and nurses, according to a report in the journal Practical Neurology. "Patients with MS are often very interested and involved in their own disease management and therefore should be empowered to play an active role in their care," wrote author Amy Perrin Ross, APN, MSN, CNRN, MSCN..(Read More)

Provider's Preference For Pain Therapy Can Affect Patient's Results, UF Researchers Find

A health care provider's beliefs about a particular treatment may have a strong influence on the patient's outcome, according to a new University of Florida stuPdy that evaluated people undergoing treatment for short-term low back pain. "We found that as long as the provider had a strong preference for an intervention, the person got better, independent of which back pain treatment they received,..(Read More)