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A Rutgers pilot study sheds light on how mindfulness could prevent relapse in opioid-dependent women. Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE)—a behavioral intervention that integrates training in mindfulness, emotion regulation strategies and savoring of natural rewards—could hold the key to mitigating relapse in women undergoing medically assisted opioid use disorder treatment, a Rutgers study found.

Much attention has recently focused on the use of opioids, which include morphine and related painkillers such as oxycodone. Though regarded as a blessing for patients suffering from severe and acute pain, they can also be a curse due to their potentially addictive nature and the risk of fatal overdose.

Eating fatty foods during stressful periods can impair the body’s ‘recovery’ from the effects of stress, new research suggests.

In recent years, microbiome research has started to shift its focus from the microbes themselves to the molecules they produce. After all, it’s these molecules that directly interact with human cells to influence a person’s health. However, trying to identify which molecules are being made by a person’s microbiome is quite challenging. A typical metabolomics study can only characterize about 10% of the molecular data from a human microbiome sample.

Whether it’s a question of analyzing medical images, detecting drug interactions, or creating brain-computer interfaces, it seems like the potential applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the health care industry are endless.

Charlene Coyne often thinks back to how her mother, Donna, struggled with severe hypertension for most of her life, battling complications that led to a heart attack and stroke by the time Donna was in her thirties.

Scientists at the University Medical Center and the University of Göttingen have developed a novel method to predict the side effects of new drugs and therapeutic approaches on the heart more efficiently. The advantage: this method is already effective in a very early test phase, even before preclinical screening in the living organism. The results are published in Cardiovascular Research.

Hospital doctors in England plan to strike around Christmas in their longest industrial action in the history of Britain’s state-run health service, after pay talks broke down Tuesday.

A reduction in nurses coming in from the European Union as a result of Brexit may have cost the NHS an estimated £61.9 million per year, according to a study from the University of Surrey.

Countries need to increase their taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, saying too few states were using tax to incentivize healthier behaviors.