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Credit: UNSW A landmark 30-year-long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and...

Citizen scientists help infectious bacteria researchers

A team of UK based researchers, known as the ENIGMA Project, has developed a novel method for assessing human/virus interactions...

Dasatinib excels in worldwide phase II trial against pediatric CML

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center In 2002, the FDA approved the drug imatinib as a first-line therapy for adults...

CONNECT registry shows only 9 percent compliance with genetic testing guidelines for AML

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Guidelines by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommend testing for seven known genetic...

UT Austin, Environmental Defense Fund, Google and Aclima unveil new hyper-local air pollution map

Credit: American Chemical Society Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the most detailed and extensive...

Sleep extension improves response time, reduces fatigue in professional baseball players

Preliminary results from a new study suggest that short-term sleep extension improves response time and daytime functioning of professional baseball...

Study links late-night tweeting by NBA players to worse game performance

Preliminary data from a new study suggests that NBA players had worse personal statistics in games that followed a late-night...

Treating depression w/ software: Tech from Mount Sinai steps into the digital healthcare universe

A treatment for depression using Emotional Faces Memory Task (EFMT), a technology originally developed by two Mount Sinai researchers, resulted...

Four Dana-Farber Researchers awarded prestigious ‘outstanding investigator awards’

BOSTON -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded four Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers with Outstanding Investigator Awards (OIA) for...

Social jet lag is associated with worse mood, poorer health and heart disease

Preliminary results of a new study show that social jet lag has emerged as an important circadian marker for health...

Sleep regularity is important for the happiness and well-being of college students

Preliminary results from the "SNAPSHOT study", an NIH-funded collaborative research project between the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at...

Mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea is associated with hypertension, diabetes

Preliminary data from two studies suggest that mild-to-moderate obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of developing hypertension...

‘Hail Mary’ mechanism can rescue cells with severely damaged chromosomes

Credit: Sullivan Lab, UC Santa Cruz The DNA vital to the life of a cell is packaged in chromosomes, and...

Sleep duration impacts treatment response for depressed patients with insomnia

Preliminary results from a new study show that depressed patients with insomnia who sleep seven or more hours per night...

Midpelvic forceps, vacuum deliveries: Higher rates of trauma for mothers and babies

Compared with cesarean deliveries, midpelvic forceps and midpelvic vacuum deliveries lead to higher rates of maternal and infant trauma, according...

Adding abiraterone to standard treatment improves prostate cancer survival by 40 percent

Adding abiraterone to hormone therapy at the start of treatment for prostate cancer improves survival by 37 per cent, according...

Immunotherapy drug effective for metastatic triple negative breast cancer

The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab--already FDA-approved for other forms of cancer-has been found to be effective in patients with metastatic triple...

Penn effort to expand trials of olaparib leads to new treatment options for patients with advanced BRCA-related breast cancer

Credit: Penn Medicine CHICAGO -- Six years ago an international team of physician scientists known as BRCA-TAC led a charge...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ready-to-eat foods

New Orleans, LA - June 4, 2017 -Research presented at the ASM Microbe 2017 meeting by Bryan Sanchez of California...

Web-based system for self-reporting symptoms helps patients live longer