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Some heart attack patients may not benefit from beta blockers
New research challenges established medical practice that all heart attack patients should be on beta blockers. The study -- by...
Legalizing marijuana will harm health of youth in Canada
The federal government's bill C-45 to legalize marijuana in Canada will jeopardize the health of young people and Parliament should...
Stopping drug abuse can reverse related heart damage
Quitting methamphetamine use can reverse the damage the drug causes to the heart and improve heart function in abusers when...
Keep your balance — even in old age
Credit: Neurogeriatrics Research Group, Kiel University Balance problems when standing and walking are ubiquitous in the older population, and can...
First Nations, Inuit babies hospitalized more often in first year of life
First Nations and Inuit babies were hospitalized much more often in the first year of life compared with non-Indigenous babies,...
New test method aims to predict allergenic potency of chemicals
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method which determines not only whether a chemical or substance is...
Increasing the age limit for Lynch syndrome genetic testing may save lives
Copenhagen, Denmark: Raising the age limit for routine genetic testing in colorectal cancer could identify more cases of families affected...
Historical rainfall levels are significant in carbon emissions from soil
Credit: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory AUSTIN, Texas - Scientists have known that microbes living in the ground can...
Climate change can alter the impact of forest pathogens in trees
Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an...
How self-regulation can help young people overcome setbacks
Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are...
Biologics before triple therapy not cost effective for rheumatoid arthritis
Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known...
The immune system promotes spontaneous heart regeneration
In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to...
CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published...
Neurons can learn temporal patterns
Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely...
New discovery: Cormorants can hear under water
Credit: University of Southern Denmark For the first time, researchers have shown that a marine birds can hear under water....
Remembrance of things past — bacterial memory of gut inflammation
Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) - The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body,...
Wake-promoting compound validated
Credit: University of Tsukuba Narcolepsy, a serious sleep disorder in which patients often fall asleep uncontrollably, has been incurable because...
Quest for drought-resistant chickpea could benefit poor farmers
Scientists are seeking to develop chickpeas that can flourish in dry climates, to help some of the world's poorest farmers...
‘Heat island’ effect could double climate change costs for world’s cities
Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the...
Previously, on Arctic warming
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto & San Diego -- Is a warmer Arctic a canary of global warming? Since the 1970s...
