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Financial incentives for cholesterol control may be cost-effective
Boston, MA - A program that offered financial incentives to both patients and their physicians to control low-density lipoproteins (LDL)...
Taste preferences connected to success of long-term weight loss after bariatric surgery
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), a type of bariatric surgery, many patients exhibit a reduction in taste...
Overall well-being of a population associated with less per capita medicare spending
CINCINNATI - A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that the overall well-being of a population on a county...
Study examines law enforcement-inflicted injuries using California hospital data
Bottom Line: An analysis of hospital visits in California shows trends in injuries inflicted by law enforcement officers in the...
CHLA team identifies developmental stage for no. 1 eye tumor in children
Credit: Hardeep Singh, PhD, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have been able to pinpoint...
Brief psychotherapy benefits women caring for children with severe health issues
Credit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Brief cognitive behavioral therapy significantly improved the mental health of women overwhelmed by...
Gut microbes’ role in mammals’ evolution starts to become clearer
CORVALLIS, Ore. - An international collaboration led by Oregon State University scientists has made a key advance toward understanding which...
UMass Amherst leads team in first sequencing of Canada lynx genome
Credit: Bill Byrne/MassWildlife AMHERST, Mass. - Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with the Vertebrate Genome Laboratory...
UMass Amherst ecologists, team report sighting rare wild goat species in Afghanistan
Credit: UMass Amherst/Zalmai Moheb AMHERST, Mass. - Based on field surveys in northern Afghanistan, Zalmai Moheb, an ecologist with the...
UM professor wins 2018 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award
Credit: Photo courtesy of Diana Six. MISSOULA - University of Montana Professor Diana Six will receive the 2018 Edward O....
New genetics tool helps answer evolutionary questions
Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - The age of big data is here. Thanks to innovations in...
Dietary fiber reduces brain inflammation during aging
URBANA, Ill. - As mammals age, immune cells in the brain known as microglia become chronically inflamed. In this state,...
Malicious brain cell identified
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) Astrocytes--the star-shaped cells of our brain--are very busy. Their job description includes...
Famous theory of the living Earth upgraded to ‘Gaia 2.0’
A time-honoured theory into why conditions on Earth have remained stable enough for life to evolve over billions of years...
A very special protein synthesis machinery
Ribosomes are among the most important molecular machines within the cell that hardly changed in the course of evolution. Their...
Trees reveal the evolution of environmental pollution
Credit: Giuliano Maselli Locosselli In an article published in the journal Environmental Pollution, Brazilian researchers showed that tree species Tipuana...
WSU Researchers see new plastics causing reproductive woes of old plastics
PULLMAN - Washington State University researchers have found that plastic products meant to replace the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA,...
Appetite for shark fin soup drives massive shark population decline
Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Consumers need to stop demanding shark fin soup and other products in the absence of robust...
Jennifer Doudna to receive the 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Credit: Keegan Houser The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a...
New map of daily light integrals generated from updated data
Credit: Photo by T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The most recent solar radiation data have been converted into...
