US military looks to develop revolutionary machine-learning tool to address upsurge in suicides
Credit: FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- An alarming spike in suicides among U.S. military service members and veterans over...
Vitamin D deficiency linked to greater risk of diabetes
Credit: UC San Diego Health An epidemiological study conducted by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine...
New strategies for hospitals during mass casualty incidents
A community's ability to cope with mass casualty incidents (MCIs) is very dependent on the capacity and capability of its...
Male contraceptive compound stops sperm without affecting hormones
CHAPEL HILL, NC - A new study published today in the journal PLOS ONE details how a compound called EP055...
Research reveals stronger people have healthier brains
A study of nearly half a million people has revealed that muscular strength, measured by handgrip, is an indication of...
Remote-control shoots laser at nano-gold to turn on cancer-killing immune cells
Credit: Georgia Tech / Allison Carter A remote command could one day send immune cells on a rampage against a...
Low-income HIV patients suffer with healthcare access
Credit: MUHC Montreal, April 18, 2017-- Quebecers are not created equal when it comes to accessing anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for...
Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that anesthesia in young children lowers intelligence
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that children given anesthesia before their third birthdays have lower...
Active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications: Study
Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found...
Overcoming bias about music takes work
Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and...
Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells
Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting...
Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can...
Why don’t kids use their asthma medicines?
In a new analysis of interviews conducted with children who have asthma, their caregivers and their clinicians, Johns Hopkins researchers...
Study shows men and women tear ACL the same way in non-contact injury
Credit: Louis DeFrate/Duke University While women are two to four times more likely than men to tear the anterior cruciate...
Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs
A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of...
Keeping the excitement under control
Credit: Jean-Sebastian Jouhanneau, MDC James Poulet's lab at the MDC uses advanced techniques to monitor the activity of networks of...
Unique protein is a vulnerability in the malaria parasite
Over a thousand people die from malaria every day. The disease is caused by a single-cell parasite (protozoan) that is...
Fatty fish and camelina oil are beneficial for your HDL and IDL cholesterol
Credit: UEF/Varpu Heiskanen Eating fatty fish increases the size and lipid composition of HDL particles in people with impaired glucose...
Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions
Credit: KAIST A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types...
Evolution: Urban life leaves behind traces in the genome of bumblebees
Bumblebees living in the city have genes that differ from those of their relatives in the countryside. Although genetic differences...
