Education program successful at reducing forced sex in South African adolescents
Southern Africa has some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world, with 20 percent of adolescent girls...
UMBC teams up with Chesapeake Conservancy to create detailed stream maps
Thousands of waterways, from major rivers like the Potomac and Susquehanna to tiny headwaters, flow through the Chesapeake Bay watershed....
ASU partners with Mayo Clinic to move germ-killing clays closer to medical use
Credit: Lynda Williams/ASU Researchers at Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have found that at least...
Depressed patients see quality of life improve with nerve stimulation
Credit: Matt Miller People with depression who are treated with nerve stimulation experience significant improvements in quality of life, even...
This tiny particle might change millions of lives
Credit: Illustrator: Yekaterina (Katya) Kadyshevskaya from the USC Bridge Institute at the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience Remember the scene...
Certain antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise, new research shows
WASHINGTON -- Nearly six percent of urinary tract infections analyzed by a California emergency department were caused by drug-resistant bacteria...
Illinois study pioneers humane feline research facility
Credit: Amy Fischer, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Spay and neuter services can reduce the number of feral and...
Multi-million-dollar grant to grow kidney research
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Alabama...
Federal grant extends, expands kidney failure research
Credit: University of Alabama at Birmingham The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has renewed a grant...
Red or yellow? A simple paper test detects false or substandard antibiotics
Credit: John Eisele/Colorado State University Antibiotics - medicines that treat bacterial infections - have saved millions of lives worldwide since...
AMP addresses clinical relevance of DNA variants in chronic myeloid neoplasms
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Aug. 21, 2018 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global molecular diagnostics professional society,...
$3 million NIH grant will fund genetic hearing loss research
The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes...
Identifying drug-resistant hotspots can provide roadmap to reduce tuberculosis in South Africa
Boston--Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have created a near real-time surveillance method to identify communities experiencing a high burden...
UC study: Exposure to tobacco smoke significantly impacts teen health
Credit: UC Creative Services As little as one hour of exposure to tobacco smoke per week can significantly impact the...
Stressed, toxic, zombie cells seen for 1st time in Alzheimer’s
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas, U.S.A. -- A type of cellular stress known to be involved in...
Standard hypothyroidism treatment falling short
What if the standard treatment for hypothyroidism--insufficient thyroid hormone--is inadequate in controlling some crucial aspects of the condition? That's the...
Newer HIV therapies have led to gains in viral suppression rates over past 2 decades
1. Newer HIV therapies have led to dramatic gains in viral suppression rates over the past 2 decades Younger persons...
What’s behind the retreating kelps and expanding corals?
Credit: Kumagai N.H., et al., PNAS, August 20, 2018 Climate change and other external forces are causing rapid marine community...
Near 2 million acres on fire in the United States
Credit: NOAA The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does...
Getting policy right: why fisheries management is plagued by the panacea mindset
Fisheries management has often been characterized by regulatory policies that result in panaceas--broad based policy solutions that are expected to...
