May 29, 2023
Engineers have developed a simple 3D-printed attachment that clips over a smartphone's camera and flash to measure blood pressure at the user's fingertip. The clip works with a custom smartphone app and currently costs about 80 cents to make. Researchers say it could help make regular blood pressure monitoring easy, affordable and accessible to people in resource-poor communities.
Super low-cost smartphone attachment brings blood pressure monitoring to your fingertips
May 29, 2023
Age-related memory loss is likely caused, in part, by lack of flavanols -- nutrients found in certain fruits and vegetables -- according to a large study in older adults.
Low-flavanol diet drives age-related memory loss, large study finds
May 25, 2023
The Focus Forward Fellowship program, which provides mentorship for female student veterans, is one of many programs offered by the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University. MFRI recently received a $5 million support grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
May 25, 2023
A Purdue University researcher was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the FamilieSCN2A Foundation to support the development of personalized treatments for a group of disorders related to the SCN2A gene.
Purdue News: PROFESSOR AWARDED $2.5 MILLION TO STUDY SCN2A-RELATED DISORDERS
May 24, 2023
Researchers at the University of Bath surveyed over 4,000 people to test social ability and found that being female and educated are some of the best predictors for how well you get on with and understand others.
Gender trumps politics in determining people's ability to read others' minds
May 23, 2023
CT scans are better at predicting a middle-aged person's risk for a heart disease, such as a heart attack, than genetics, reports a new study. Conventional measures of risk factor levels include blood pressure and cholesterol. Scientists had hoped genetics could better predict risk than conventional measure, but only when considering CT scan, half the study participants moved into the high-risk group.
May 22, 2023
COVID-19 wasn’t Soojung Jo’s first experience with the outbreak of a coronavirus — or disinformation spread through social media. Jo saw something similar happen when MERS struck Korea in 2015. Today, as a professor in Purdue’s School of Nursing, Jo researches how social media can better promote accurate health information.
Purdue News: Harnessing the power of social media for preventive health
May 17, 2023
A team of researchers has shown that a cheap and readily available drug, used to treat high blood pressure, could help the thousands of women who suffer from persistent acne.
Non-antibiotic treatment for women with persistent acne shown to be effective
May 17, 2023
Researchers trace the origin of certain breast cancers to genomic reshuffling -- rearrangement of chromosomes -- that activates cancer genes and ignites disease. The finding offers a long-missing explanation for many cases of the disease that remain unexplained by the classical model of breast cancer development. The study shows the sex hormone estrogen -- thus far thought to be only a fuel for breast cancer growth -- can directly cause tumor-driving genomic rearrangements.
May 16, 2023
Ground-breaking study provides national and state-level estimates of the economic burden of health disparities by race and ethnicity and educational levels.
NIH-funded study highlights the financial toll of health disparities in the United States
