Hispanic adults with diabetes could benefit from peer support interventions
Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Dec. 6, 2016) -- Diabetes is a global health problem that disproportionally affects individuals of...
Global habitat loss still rampant across much of the Earth
Credit: Courtesy of WCS NEW YORK (December 6, 2016) - As 196 signatory nations of the Convention of Biological Diversity...
Top in US Chamber of Commerce’s BusinessH2O Summit, Dec. 12, in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS...December 6, 2016--Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) is partnering with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the first...
High renewable electricity growth continued in 2015
The 2015 Renewable Energy Data Book shows that U.S. renewable electricity grew to 16.7 percent of total installed capacity and...
NREL 2016 Standard Scenarios outlook shows continued growth in renewables and gas
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the 2016 Standard Scenarios: A U.S. Electricity Sector Outlook. The...
USDOT awards $14M for mobility research at UW-led transportation center
Credit: PacTrans The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded approximately $14 million over five years to a multi-university, regional transportation...
BMJ & University of Cape Town Knowledge Translation Unit launch PACK Adult Global
BMJ, one of the world's leading healthcare knowledge providers, and its partner the University of Cape Town Lung Institute's Knowledge...
Research presentations from the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer Dec. 6
Credit: IASLC Vienna, Austria--December 6, 2016--Today's press briefing at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) focused on...
CTCA invited to international forum to present findings from multiple lung cancer studies
Credit: Photo courtesy of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) (PHOENIX, Arizona - Dec. 6, 2016) - Lung cancer-based studies...
BMJ Best Practice & BMJ Learning available to health workers in Paraná State, Brazil
(BMJ) BMJ, one of the world's leading healthcare knowledge providers, announced today that healthcare professionals in Paraná State will be...
Scientists learn more about how motors maneuver our cells’ roadways
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 6, 2016) - Much like motors power our cars, they also ensure that proteins...
Risk for misuse of opioids and stimulants: What does employment status have to do with it?
December 6, 2016 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that employment status is a factor...
Do cannabis users think package warnings are needed?
is the only peer-reviewed open access journal dedicated to the scientific, medical, and psychosocial exploration of clinical cannabis, cannabinoids, and...
How should patients be monitored for prostate cancer after a negative biopsy?
New York, NY, December 6, 2016 -- If, when, and how men with negative biopsies for prostate cancer should continue...
Ban on triclosan shows need for new chemicals to demonstrate efficacy and safety
BOSTON (Dec, 6, 2016)--A new commentary from Patrick McNamara and Stuart Levy cautions that the Food and Drug Administration's ban...
Improving the resolution of lithography
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2016 - Flow-lithography is a lithographic method for continuously generating polymer microstructures for various applications such...
Unlocking a liver receptor puzzle
Credit: ASBMB Imagine a key that opens a pin tumbler lock. A very similar key can also fit into the...
Research providing promising new treatments for melanoma
New Orleans, LA - In a paper published online November 30, 2016, in Melanoma Management, Adam Riker, MD, Professor of...
GeroScope — a computer method to beat aging
Credit: MIPT's Press Office Russian scientists from MIPT, in collaboration with Insilico Medicine Inc., were commissioned by the Center for...
Critical genes unravelled to understand human diseases and support drug discovery
Credit: Earlham Institute Throughout evolutionary history, there have been genetic elements that have duplicated - giving rise to genes with...
