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 ...
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 ...
What stops mass extinctions?
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The link between urban design and childhood obesity
Children who live in more walkable neighbourhoods have a smaller waist measurement and a lower BMI (body mass index). Those ...
A medical charter: Commitments to limit physician burnout, promote well-being
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- More than half of U.S. physicians say they experience burnout in their work. Today, Mayo Clinic and ...
Medical group offers steps to address physician burnout
(New York - March 29, 2018) - Physician burnout continues to be a pervasive issue, with more than 50 percent ...
Slow, steady waves keep brain humming
If you keep a close eye on an MRI scan of the brain, you'll see a wave pass through the ...
Anthropogenic lead still present in European shelf seas
Credit: Photo: D. Rusiecka, GEOMAR. Lead (PB) is one of few elements for which the impact of human activity on ...
Scientists publish new book on key policies for a sustainable energy future
Credit: Roger James Kuhns and George H. Shaw Mystic, CT - Dr. Roger James Kuhns and Dr. George H. Shaw ...
Scientists found a new genus and species of frogs
Credit: Nikolay Poyarkov A team of scientists from MSU and their foreign colleagues discovered a previously unknown species and genus ...
Tumor suppressor protein targets liver cancer
LA JOLLA--(March 29, 2018) Salk Institute scientists, together with researchers from Switzerland's University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, discovered ...
Fat-sensing hormone helps control tadpole metamorphosis
ANN ARBOR -- When tadpoles are but tadpoles, they're voracious eaters, chomping down all of the plant matter in their ...
New work from Ron Crystal’s lab on treating hereditary adrenal disorders
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 29, 2018--A new study has definitively shown that a single ...
Accurately diagnosing genetic disease prevents cancer, saves lives
Credit: The Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center A single, upfront genomic test is more effective for detecting Lynch syndrome in ...
Access, affordability of health care in years after ACA for cancer survivors
Bottom Line: Cancer survivors were more likely to be insured but they still reported greater difficulties accessing and affording health ...
Neurocognitive risk may begin before treatment for young leukemia patients
Credit: Seth Dixon/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Leukemia itself, not just side effects related to its treatment, may increase the ...
Scientists use AI to predict biological age based on smartphone and wearables data
Credit: ©Gero LLC Moscow, March 29, 2018 - Researchers from the longevity biotech company GERO and Moscow Institute of Physics ...
