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DALLAS, March 26, 2018 -- Less than 40 percent of people with severe elevations in cholesterol are being prescribed appropriate...

Drug-related mortality rates are not randomly distributed across the US

Credit: Shannon M. Monnat Ann Arbor, March 26, 2018 - Drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US public...

Top sports leagues heavily promote unhealthy food and beverages, new study finds

Credit: NYU Langone Health The majority of food and beverages marketed through multi-million-dollar television and online sports sponsorships are unhealthy...

Cancer patients’ pain eased by simple bedside chart, study shows

Cancer patients' pain eased by simple bedside chart, study shows Patients with cancer could benefit from a simple bedside system...

Study: More people rely on government catastrophic drug plans

TORONTO, March 26, 2018-- Government spending for the catastrophic drug program in Ontario rose 700 per cent between 2000 and...

Machine learning model provides rapid prediction of C. difficile infection risk

Every year nearly 30,000 Americans die from an aggressive, gut-infecting bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which is resistant to...

Oxycodone use shifts in Australia after tamper-resistant versions introduced

After the introduction of tamper-resistant oxycodone in Australia, dispensing rates for higher-strength formulations decreased for people younger than 65 years,...

Breakthrough in battle against rice blast

Scientists have found a way to stop the spread of rice blast, a fungus that destroys up to 30% of...

Two immunotherapies used together for the first time to tackle tumors

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 26, 2018) - Two immunotherapies - one that enables the...

New research shows fertilization drives global lake emissions of greenhouse gases

Credit: Credit: Christian Dinkel DULUTH, Minnesota--A paper published this week in the journal Limnology and Oceanography Letters is the first...

KAUST-Bruker CoE in magnetic resonance inaugurated

Credit: KAUST 2018 March 15, 2018 - Thuwal, Saudi Arabia: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, (KAUST) and the...

Dissecting artificial intelligence to better understand the human brain

March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018 - Boston - In the natural world, intelligence takes many forms. It could be a bat using...

Singapore-led team of Asian cancer researchers wins AACR Team Science Award

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, March 24, 2018 - For the first time, an Asian team of cancer researchers has...

Additional therapy after surgical removal of rare tumors may not increase survival

March 24, 2018

CINCINNATI -- Results of an analysis from the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine show that additional therapy, or...

Associations between longitudinal beverage intakes and adolescent caries

March 24, 2018

Alexandria, VA, USA - At the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction...

Different neural strategies for junior high school male and female English learners

Credit: Fumitaka Homae Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University studied the neural response of Japanese junior high school...

Care providers’ understanding of obesity treatment is limited

WASHINGTON, DC AND SILVER SPRING, MD (March 23, 2018)--Despite the high prevalence of obesity among U.S. adults, provision of recommended...

The brain learns completely differently than we’ve assumed since the 20th century

Credit: Prof. Ido Kanter The brain is a complex network containing billions of neurons, where each of these neurons communicates...

Investigating the enigmatic link between periodontal inflammation and retinal degeneration

Alexandria, VA, USA - At the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction...

A scientific study characterizes two new Galician olive varieties for the first time