Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better and have IQ scores that average four points higher than those who consume fish less frequently or not at all, according to research by Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, and colleagues. Their findings were published in Scientific Reports, a Nature journal.

Research from Junko Takeshita, MD, PhD, MSCE, shows minorities are less likely than whites to seek treatment for the skin disease—even though their conditions tend to be more severe.

Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, talks with Philadelphia's ABC Action News about additional concerns for psoriasis patients: For every 10 percent more skin surface affected, their risk of Type 2 diabetes rises about 20 percent.

During the 2014–2015 West African Ebola epidemic, many argued that randomized clinical trials—our most reliable way of evaluating new treatments and vaccines—were neither ethical nor feasible in an environment with limited health infrastructure, where severe disease was causing many fatalities. Susan Ellenberg, PhD, and colleagues look at the trials that did occur and comment on strategies for the future.

Research by Audrey Blewer, MPH, of Penn’s Center for Resuscitation Science and the DBEI, reveals that outside of hospitals, men are much more likely than women to get CPR. The article focuses on a study she presented at the recent American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.

In continuing coverage of innovative transplant work by David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, and Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, their trial’s first recipient of a hepatitis-C-infected heart comments on how life has improved since he got the new organ and underwent successful treatment for the infection.

Can drinking enough fluid via a “smart” water bottle help prevent recurrence of urinary stones? Peter Reese, MD, MSCE, and Greg Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE, lead one of five centers in a new NIH-sponsored research network that will pursue The Prevention of Urinary Stones with Hydration (PUSH) study, a randomized clinical trial.

A physician’s “nudge” frames a set of choices to steer toward a particular option without shutting out other options. Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, M.Bioethics, believes this practice can improve the patient’s experience.

What can we learn from the clinical response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa? Susan Ellenberg, PhD, comments.

Recurrent cases of Clostridium difficile, the most common healthcare-linked infection in the U.S., are soaring, found James Lewis, MD, MSCE in a new study. How safe is our most promising treatment? “While we know that fecal microbiota transplantation is generally safe and effective in the short term, we need to establish the long-term safety of this procedure,” says Dr. Lewis.