‘Football as Medicine’
Prescribing football for global health promotionCredit: Bo Kousgaard The new book "Football as Medicine - Prescribing Football for Global Health ...
Month: December 2019
Could some people with schizophrenia in poorer nations simply have a vitamin deficiency?
A new hypothesis may hold the key to solving four medical mysteries associated with the chronic brain disorderCredit: University of ...
Depression, anxiety may hinder healing in young patients with hip pain
Pre-operative depression, anxiety linked to worse postsurgical outcomesCredit: Matt Miller New research suggests that physicians evaluating young patients with hip ...
Fundamental discoveries for future nanotools: Chemists distinguish multiple weak forces
Credit: Image by Shuichi Hiraoka, CC-BY-ND The process of building a tiny cube has revealed some of the fundamental mysteries ...
Estimates of ecosystem carbon mitigation improved towards the goal of the Paris agreement
Credit: Masayuki Kondo Approximately 30 percent of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by human activities, mainly the use of fossil ...
A guidebook for local governments and CBOs to support elderly people to take out the trash
Credit: NIES One of the issues related to waste management in aging society is helping elderly people who find it ...
Antiarrhythmic drug identified as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension
Findings reported in The American Journal of Pathology suggest dofetilide may counteract pathological changes in potassium channels associated with pulmonary ...
Experiment suggests the best ways to tackle invasive Oregon grape in Belgian coastal dunes
Credit: Tim Adriaens The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by one ...
Local traditional knowledge can be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring
New research from a cross-organisational consortium in the Amazon has found indigenous knowledge to be as accurate as scientific transect ...
Bumblebees exposed to Chernobyl-levels of radiation consume more nectar
Credit: Jessica Burrows The study simulated Chernobyl-levels of radiation exposure in a laboratory to investigate the impacts it may be ...
Flipping the script on novel cancer therapy leads to insights into lupus
Credit: (Image credit: Chen Lab) In the last decade, scientists discovered that blocking a key regulator of the immune system ...
University of Iowa receives major grant to continue work on Huntington’s disease
$18 million NIH grant for research to understand brain development in children at risk for HDCredit: University of Iowa Health ...
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on ...
Tsoi lives in Malaysian forests
Sergey Ermilov, a researcher from Tyumen State University, discovered and described a new species of oribatid mites that lives on ...
National Academy of Inventors elects Pitt’s William J. Federspiel as Fellow
Pitt Bioengineer recognized for life-saving artificial lung technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Dec. 11, 2019) ... With 12 issued U.S. ...
Understanding Asteraceae: Validation of a Hyb-Seq probe set for evolutionary studies
Credit: Jones, K. E., T. Fér, R. E. Schmickl, R. B. Dikow, V. A. Funk, S. Herrando-Moraira, P. R. Johnston, ...
Researchers discover brain circuit linked to food impulsivity
This creates the possibility scientists can someday develop therapeutics to address overeatingCredit: Cal Powell You're on a diet, but the ...
Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction
Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impactCredit: Northwestern University Shells' chemistry shifted to ...
Safer viruses for vaccine research and diagnosis
Credit: Dr Daniel Watterson A new technology to produce safer 'hybrid' viruses at high volumes for use in vaccines and ...
Crucial collaboration: Expanding naval capability through ties with industry, academia
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Eric M. Butler/Released) ARLINGTON, Va.--The secret sauce of successful naval acquisitions requires a vital ingredient: ...
