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Study picks out children with incurable brain cancer who could benefit from adult therapy
Children with incurable brain tumours could benefit from potentially life-extending treatment if genetic testing was used to personalise therapy as...
Job strain linked to onset of common mental illness
Workplaces that reduce job strain could prevent up to 14 percent of new cases of common mental illness from occurring,...
Early depression diagnosis is deadly serious for patients with coronary artery disease
Credit: Pragle TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- For clinicians providing comprehensive care to patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), proactive depression screening...
Safety in the age of global goods flows
No matter whether it's cars, computers or chemical products -- Japan is one of the world's leading industrial and export...
62 life scientists elected as EMBO Members
Heidelberg, 14 May 2018 - EMBO announces today that 62 outstanding life scientists have been elected to its membership, joining...
May/June 2018 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Screening Tool Improves Prediction of Developing Dementia In people with a minor decline on the Mini-Mental-State-Examination--a widely used but limited...
Wearable technology to track brain, predict illness
Credit: University of Houston University of Houston electrical engineer Rose T. Faghih has been awarded $175,000 by the National Science...
Why older workers might be more stressed than younger ones
Older workers tend to feel more stress than younger workers when their employers don't provide them with the support and...
Marketing to physicians by opioid pharma companies leads to more opioid prescriptions
Boston - A new study shows the significant impact that even a meal or two paid for by a pharmaceutical...
UA sleep researcher receives $3.6 millin grant to study sleep health on US-Mexico border
Credit: UA BioComminications Michael A. Grandner, PhD, MTR, director of the University of Arizona Sleep and Health Research Program, has...
Even low concentrations of silver can foil wastewater treatment
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Research at Oregon State University has shed new light how an increasingly common consumer product component -...
Tumor-like spheres help scientists discover smarter cancer drugs
Credit: Kota et. al./The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - May 14, 2018 - Cancer is a disease often driven...
Brain size mediates the association between height and cognitive ability
Reports from several studies have identified a link between height and general cognitive ability, or intelligence, but the mechanisms underlying...
Research leads to medication reduction in aged care facilities
Credit: University of Tasmania Effective intervention can reduce medication overuse in Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACF's), the latest University of...
Increased overweight in children of mothers who drank coffee while pregnant
Credit: Photo by Pontus Sundén A study published in the BMJ Open journal shows that even moderate coffee consumption during...
Opening a new door to immunity
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health A new study could have major implications for our understanding of disease processes for conditions such...
Scientists screen molecules for promise as new prostate cancer drugs
Cancer researchers at the University of Bath have measured systematically how efficient molecules are at suppressing the activity of a...
Dengue ‘hot spots’ provide map to chikungunya and Zika outbreaks
Identifying dengue fever "hot spots" can provide a predictive map for outbreaks of chikungunya and Zika -- two other viral...
Genome surgery for eye disease moves closer to reality
SAN FRANCISCO - May 11, 2018 -- Researchers from Columbia University have developed a new technique for the powerful gene...
Healthy diet may lower risk of hearing loss in women
Boston, MA -- Hearing loss affects approximately 48 million Americans. Some evidence suggests that diet may influence risk of hearing...
