UMN Medical School study explores upstream factors for A-Fib-related stroke and dementia
MINNEAPOLIS - April 4, 2018 - A new study from Dr. Lin Yee Chen, Associate Professor of Medicine in the ...
Sleep deficiency increases risk of a motor vehicle crash
Excessive sleepiness can cause cognitive impairments and put individuals at a higher risk of motor vehicle crash. However, the perception ...
One in 3 older patients die following emergency department intubation
Credit: Kei Ouchi, Brigham and Women's Hospital Intubation in the emergency department is common and can prevent a patient from ...
Are children of married first cousins at increased risk of common mood disorders, psychoses?
Bottom Line: Being a child of married first cousins was associated with a higher likelihood of receiving medicine for common ...
Tourniquet practice adopted from the military saves lives and limbs in civilians
CHICAGO (April 4, 2018): Civilian trauma medicine has adopted many methods and techniques that have been developed and tested on ...
Frequency of skin cancer screening among indoor tanners
Bottom Line: Skin cancer screening is underused by indoor tanners. Why The Research Is Interesting: About 5 million skin cancers ...
Acupressure for menstrual pain
Can acupressure achieve a sustained reduction in menstrual pain? Is an app-based self-care program particularly attractive to young women? These ...
Enhanced therapeutic vaccine platform achieves 2 proof-of-concepts in veterinary medical use
Credit: Antonia Fettelschoss-Gabriel / USZ Scientists from the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Oxford as well as the Latvian Biomedical ...
Diabetes awareness ‘major concern’ for UK Asians
South Asians living in the UK feel cut off and excluded from education or self-help programmes, preventing them from managing ...
Street dogs to benefit from app that keeps canine health on track
Improved care for street dogs is the goal of a new smartphone app devised by an international team of animal ...
Making headway in infant leukemia research
Around 600 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with leukaemia each year in Germany. The effects are especially ...
US power sector carbon emissions intensity drops to lowest on record
PITTSBURGH -- (April 4, 2018) Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced the release of ...
Avoid south-facing birdhouses — for the nestlings’ sake
Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers ...
Anemia: When cells fail to produce enough protein factories
Every day, stem cells in our bone marrow produce billions of new red blood cells. Any disruption in this process ...
Newton funding to bolster China’s long-term growth and global economy with agri-tech innovation
Credit: EI With the largest population in the world, China feeds nearly 1.4 billion people - covering 22% of the ...
How live vaccines enhance the body’s immune response
Credit: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kristina Dietert Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin's university hospital, have discovered a new mechanism ...
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Credit: Kyoto University / Sato Lab Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- is believed to have evolved from a simian ...
Research shows first land plants were parasitized by microbes
Credit: Philip Carella By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution ...
Relaxation response may reduce blood pressure by altering expression of a set of genes
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - High blood pressure -- or hypertension -- is a major risk factor ...
Mutation of worm gene, swip-10, triggers age-dependent death of dopamine neurons
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Dopamine, a signaling chemical in the brain, has the lofty job of controlling emotions, moods, movements ...
