High food insecurity found in a sample of adults on probation in Rhode Island
BOSTON (June 8, 2018, 2:00 p.m. ET)--A new cross-sectional study led by public health researchers at Tufts University School of...
Racial/Ethnic disparities in diabetes diagnosis and control in reproductive aged women
New research demonstrates that diabetes is increasingly common in young adults and disproportionately affects women of color. In a new...
The cartography of the nucleus
Credit: Guttman laboratory / Cell Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six...
Face transplantation — An established option to improve quality of life in patients with severe facial trauma
June 8, 2018 - Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, US trauma surgeons should be aware of the...
Holes in the head
Credit: University of Miami Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of...
Consumers beware: High user ‘star ratings’ dont mean a mobile medical app works
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) By screening 250 user reviews and comments for a once popular -- but proven inaccurate -- mobile...
$8.1 million grant funds new center to research highly aggressive form of lung cancer
Vanderbilt University has been awarded a five-year, $8.1-million grant from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a research center...
Mars rover finds ancient organic compounds that match meteoritic samples
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Washington, DC-- NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered new "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks on Mars, increasing...
Consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse emissions contributing to climate change
HARTFORD, Conn. and BOSTON (June 7, 2018)-- Changes in diet have been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions...
Threat of malaria left its mark on the immune system in people with African ancestry
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Flickr, Public Domain Mark 1.0 In a new study published June...
MSU graduate’s research of wildlife movement patterns wins landscape ecology award
Credit: Meredith McClure BOZEMAN - A Montana State University doctoral graduate's research on the best way to identify places important...
Inhibitors for gas hydrates to receive grant funding from RFBR
KFU employees have been engaged in hydrate studies since 2016. Many questions were raised at that time about the practicality...
Does cancer increase risk of diabetes?
Bottom Line: Developing cancer was associated with increased risk for later diabetes in a nationally representative sample of the Korean...
Genomic study reveals surprising twist
Credit: © E. Rivest/VIMS. A new study puts a surprising twist--one might even say a double spiral--into our understanding of...
Why seashells are tougher than chalk (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 7, 2018 -- Seashells are made mostly of calcium carbonate, also known as...
Study shows PR best practices are only second best
LAWRENCE -- Within public relations, the standard practice of looking out for No. 1 and viewing relationships as sources of...
Tiny paragliding beetle that lived with dinosaurs discovered in amber, named ‘Jason’
Credit: Shuhei Yamamoto, Field Museum Featherwing beetles are smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. They get...
Maps made of nerve cells
Credit: Source: Thomas Hainmüller, Marlene Bartos Dr. Thomas Hainmüller and Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos of the Institute of Psychology of...
Customized resistance exercise a factor for success with fibromyalgia
Credit: Photo by Stefan Svensson Fibromyalgia and resistance exercise have often been considered an impossible combination. But with proper support...
St. Jude partners with NCI cancer centers with goal of eliminating HPV-related cancers
In keeping with its mission of "finding cures and means of prevention for childhood catastrophic diseases," St. Jude Children's Research...
