Three parent factors that heighten the prevalence of childhood physical abuse: New study
The connection between abuse and addiction, intimate partner violence and mental illness Adults who had parents who struggled with addiction,...
New book sings carbon’s praises
A new book by Robert Hazen, Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything, celebrates carbon in all...
Preventive drug therapy may increase right-sided heart failure risk in patients who receive heart devices
DALLAS, June 11, 2019 - Patients with left-sided heart failure who get implanted devices to improve the pumping of their...
Big picture genetic scoring approach reliably predicts heart disease
Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine Journal Report DALLAS, June 11, 2019 - Specialized risk scores derived from testing that calculates...
A ‘one-two punch’ to wipe out cancerous ovarian cells
Montreal, June 11, 2019 - Researchers from the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have developed a two-step combination...
Novel agent reactivates an immune call by LIF blockade
Promising new therapy with a dual mechanism of action to eliminate cancer stem cells and activate the immune system now...
ACP releases paper on methods for developing evidence-based clinical policy papers
ACP continues to refine and enhance methodology for guidelines and guidance statements Philadelphia, June 11, 2019 - Recommendations for the...
EWG: Nitrate pollution of US tap water could cause 12,500 cancer cases each year
Groundbreaking peer-reviewed study analyzes health and economic impacts of widespread chemical contamination from agriculture WASHINGTON - Nitrate pollution of U.S....
Tiny light box opens new doors into the nanoworld
Credit: Denis Baranov/Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a completely new way...
Fracking causes some songbirds to thrive while others decline
A new paper in The Condor: Ornithological Applications, published by Oxford University Press, finds that some songbird species benefit from...
Light-powered nano-organisms consume CO2, create eco-friendly plastics and fuels
Credit: Casey A. Cass University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and...
Skinny cod and grey seal reveals troubling changes to food web in the Baltic Sea
Credit: Olle Karlsson "It is important that you understand how the food web works when managing a fishery. It is...
Curbing your enthusiasm for overeating
UC Riverside-led mouse study focuses on cannabis-like molecules that augment feeding behaviorCredit: UCR/Stan Lim. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Signals between our...
Life in Antarctica’s ice mirrors human disease
Credit: A. Dornburg The cooling of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, which began approximately 35 million years ago and gave...
Stanford researchers synthesize healing compounds in scorpion venom
Credit: Edson N. Carcamo-Noriega A scorpion native to Eastern Mexico may have more than just toxin in its sting. Researchers...
A bubbly new way to detect the magnetic fields of nanometer-scale particles
Credit: S. Kelley/NIST As if they were bubbles expanding in a just-opened bottle of champagne, tiny circular regions of magnetism...
2019 ACR/ARP annual meeting press registration opens
ATLANTA - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Association for Rheumatology Professionals (ARP) welcomes members of the press...
BU finds iron may not improve fertility
Study finds little association between iron intake and chances of conception overall, except modest benefits from non-heme iron for women...
SIRT1 plays key role in chronic myeloid leukemia to aid persistence of leukemic stem cells
Development of effective approaches to target these persistent leukemic stem cells is a challenge for better cancer careCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM,...
Mountain-dwellers can adapt to melting glaciers without caring about climate change
A new study challenges the assumption that communities have to believe in climate change before they can take actionCredit: Ben...
