Greater awareness needed of stomach cancer risk in under-40s, especially in Latin America
ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer 2019, Barcelona, Spain, July 3-6Credit: @European Society for Medical Oncology Barcelona, Spain, 2 July...
Supervised fun, exercise both provide psychosocial benefit to children with obesity
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 2, 2019) -A program with clear rules, routines and activities,...
Top global public health scientists launch new challenge to anti-vaxxers
Search engines and social media organizations must do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information on childhood vaccination, and...
Trendy on eight legs: Jumping spider named after fashion czar Karl Lagerfeld
Credit: Robert Whyte (Jotus fortiniae sp. nov., top row) and Michael Doe (unidentified species, bottom row), CeNak. New to science...
Airless worms: A new hope against drug-resistant parasites
By targeting an unusual offshoot of worm metabolism, researchers seek to fight a major global health problemCredit: WikiMedia Commons Over...
Response to gene-targeted drugs depends on cancer type
Cancers with the same genetic weaknesses respond differently to targeted drugs depending on the tumour type of the patient, new...
Scientists, students to conduct first live, interactive public broadcasts from arctic ocean
On an 18-day voyage July 18 -- August 4, 2019 US/Canadian team of experts and students to measure vital signs...
Harnessing reliability for neuroscience research
The neuroimaging community has made significant strides towards collecting large-scale neuroimaging datasets, which--until the past decade--had seemed out of reach....
Sense of smell, pollution and neurological disease connection explored
Credit: Patrick Drew, Penn State A consensus is building that air pollution can cause neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease...
CCNY experts in lateralization of speech publish discovery
City College of New York-led researchers have published a breakthrough in understanding previously unknown inner workings related to the lateralization...
Yellow fever virus responsible for current epidemic in Brazil originated in Amazon in 1980
Researchers have retraced the pathogen's route as it spread from the state of Pará by analyzing tissue samples from dead...
Study shows some generics can cost medicare recipients more than brand-name drugs
Medicare Part D enrollees may pay more out of pocket for high-priced specialty generic drugs than their brand-name counterparts, according...
New imaging molecule captures brain changes tied to progressive multiple sclerosis
Novel PET tracer detected abnormal inflammation in the cerebral grey matter of patients with MS, reflecting patients' clinical severity Secondary...
Geisel study finds downside risk contracts still less common for ACOs
Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in...
Docs should consider a patient’s weight before prescribing new chemotherapy drugs
A new class of cancer drugs just now entering the marketplace seems promising so far, but researchers at the University...
New data resource reveals highly variable staffing at nursing homes
Researchers who analyzed payroll-based staffing data for U.S. nursing homes discovered large daily staffing fluctuations, low weekend staffing and daily...
Will Fox wins 2019 Stix Award for early career contributions to plasma physics
Credit: Sarah Jane White Leadership of laboratory experiments that bring astrophysical processes down to Earth has won physicist Will Fox...
How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Telepathic communication might be one step closer to reality thanks to new research from the...
Gender bias alive and well in health care roles, study shows
New Orleans, LA -- Results of a multi-center study of patients' assumptions about health care professionals' roles based on gender...
When kinetics and thermodynamics should play together
How the salinity of water affects calcium carbonate nucleationCredit: Washington University in St. Louis The formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3)...
