Patients who travel abroad for plastic surgery can bring home serious complications
With the promise of inexpensive procedures luring patients to travel abroad for plastic surgery, medical tourism has become an expanding,...
Illinois researchers receive $1 million to study bioenergy crops
URBANA, Ill. - The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture has announced a grant for $1 million to support...
Polymers that mimic chameleon skin
Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties - soft-yet-strong, tough-yet-flexible - that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An international...
What stops mass extinctions?
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that...
Lesson learned? Massive study finds lectures still dominate STEM ed
Credit: Craig Chandler | University of Nebraska-Lincoln An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and...
UMD Researchers explore how personality affects gamified diabetes self-management
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Mobile health (mHealth) apps using gamified elements, like Empower by Ayogo and Fitocracy, for improving behaviors...
Child sexual abuse in US costs up to $1.5 million per child death, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Child sexual abuse in the United States is costly, with an average lifetime cost of $1.1...
Opioid use prevalent among electronic dance music partygoers
One in 10 electronic dance music (EDM) party attendees have misused opioids in the past year, exceeding the national average,...
Plastic surgery abroad can lead to severe complications after returning to the US
requiring extensive and costly treatment after they return to the United States, reports a study in the April issue of...
New research award by Fisher & Paykel healthcare to benefit COPD patients
Credit: ATS (New York, NY) - March 29, 2018 - The ATS Foundation is pleased to announce the new ATS...
Anti-aging protein alpha Klotho’s molecular structure revealed
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - March 29, 2018 - Researchers from UT Southwestern's Charles and Jane Pak Center...
Poor grades tied to class times that don’t match our biological clocks
Credit: Benjamin Smarr It may be time to tailor students' class schedules to their natural biological rhythms, according to a...
Breast cancers detected at smaller size in women with implants
March 29, 2018 - Breast augmentation with implants does not interfere with the ability to detect later breast cancers--in fact,...
Researchers develop model to show how bacteria grow in plumbing systems
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Bacteria in tap water can multiply when a faucet isn't used for a...
Walleye fish populations are in decline
Credit: Andrew Rypel/UC Davis Walleye, an iconic native fish species in Wisconsin, the upper Midwest and Canada, are in decline...
Now you see it: Invisibility material created by UCI engineers
Irvine, Calif., March 29, 2018 - Materials inspired by disappearing Hollywood dinosaurs and real-life shy squid have been invented by...
Study on frogs helps scientists understand disease outbreak and progression
Credit: Cori Zawacki RENO, Nev. - The search for answers to protect Central American frogs from extinction is also giving...
Researchers investigate riverbank erosion and resilience in coastal Bangladesh
Credit: Virginia Tech Coastal residents in Bangladesh are losing their homes and farmland at an astonishing rate due to riverbank...
Colon signaling pathway key to inflammatory bowel disease
Credit: Department of Biodefense Research,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) -led research reveals role of signaling pathway in development...
Pediatric cancer drug shows 93 percent response rate
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - March 29, 2018 - A first-of-its-kind drug targeting a fused gene found in...
