Month: August 2018

(BOSTON) -- Today the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Prapela Inc. announced that the Institute's ...

How brains of doers differ from those of procrastinators

Credit: RUB, Marquard Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have analysed why certain people tend to put tasks off rather than tackling ...

PCORI Board approves $85 million in new studies on opioids, cancer & other high-burden conditions

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $85 million to fund 16 new ...

Breastfeeding may help protect mothers against stroke

DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2018 -- Breastfeeding is not only good for babies, there is growing evidence it may also reduce ...

Neuroscientists restore significant bladder control to 5 men with spinal cord injuries

Credit: UCLA Health More than 80 percent of the 250,000 Americans living with a spinal cord injury lose the ability ...

Research finds naps plus sleep may enhance emotional memory in early childhood

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In a new study by sleep researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, neuroscientists ...

Candidate for universal flu vaccine protects against multiple strains

PHILADELPHIA--A universal flu vaccine that protects people against most influenza strains is one step closer to reality, with a study ...

Smartphone apps hold promise for electronic medical record matching, study finds

Mobile phones and smartphones apps offer a promising approach to ensure that an individual's medical records when shared between different ...

Study examines relationship between social disparities and benign prostatic hyperplasia

In an Andrologia study of 100,000 men in Korea, social disparities--such as low education level and low household income, current ...

Pain, insomnia, and depression often drive osteoarthritis patients to seek medical care

Pain was the main driver of seeking medical care in an Arthritis Care & Research study of patients with osteoarthritis. ...

Study results may benefit patients with knee osteoarthritis and meniscal tears

In an Arthritis & Rheumatology study of 221 patients with knee osteoarthritis and meniscal tears, increases in inflammation of the ...

Maternal depression may alter stress and immune markers in children

New research suggests that depression in women may affect their children's stress and physical well-being throughout life. For the Depression ...

Low birth weight linked to obesity, diabetes, and hypertension later in life

The findings, which come from a Journal of Diabetes analysis of 11,515 men and 13,569 women in China, indicate that ...

Can work stress contribute to Parkinson’s disease risk?

Results from a Movement Disorders study suggest that occupational stress is associated with Parkinson's Disease risk, such that having a ...

Sleep disorder linked with abnormal lipid levels

In the Respirology study, investigators identified strong associations between several measures of OSA severity and higher total cholesterol, higher LDL-cholesterol, ...

Medical device managers rely on physicians to screen out defects rather than issue recalls

Credit: Indiana University Kelley School of Business BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Results of a new behavioral study into what influences the ...

Untangling the secret of spider webs’ superpower

LOWELL, Mass. - In the "Spider-Man" movies, the superhero was able to stop a runaway train from crashing by using ...

Sequencing genomes of Nigerian women could help prevent many lethal breast cancers

Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine For the first time, DNA contributed by Sub-Saharan African women has been thoroughly evaluated ...

Preparing for chemical attacks with improved computer models

Credit: Suddher BhimiReddy and Kiran Bhaganagar On April 4, 2017, the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwest Syria experienced one ...

A switch to turn fragrances on and off