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Tough situation after giving birth for women with type-1 diabetes
(University of Gothenburg) Holding a newborn baby -- and, at the same time, dealing with a blood sugar level that...
Boosting natural defenses to fight antibiotic-resistant pneumonia
Credit: Adobe Stock/Wikimedia Commons Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat in bacterial pneumonia. While immune-stimulating treatments can help the body...
Study: Get moving to get happier
ANN ARBOR---Physical activity has long been known to reduce depression and anxiety, and is commonly prescribed to prevent or cure...
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...
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...
Mental disorder rates differ by immigration status and ethnicity of American adolescents
Immigrant youth from specific racial-ethnic groups in the USA tend to have lower rates of certain mental disorders compared to...
Freedom and flexibility: Thinking outside the cell for functional genomics
Over the past two decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science...
Are high-risk anticholinergic medicines prescribed too often for older adults?
Anticholinergics are a class of medications that are often prescribed for allergies, lung disease, and urinary incontinence. They also often...
NIH hosts largest ever BRAIN Initiative meeting
What: More than 1,000 cutting-edge researchers from around the country will spend three days in Bethesda, Maryland talking about the...
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Credit: Kyoto University / Sato Lab Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- is believed to have evolved from a simian...
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...
From car engines to exoplanets
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Chemical models developed to help limit the emission of pollutants by car engines are being used to...
Researchers test stem cell-based retinal implant for common cause of vision loss
Credit: USC Roski Eye Institute LOS ANGELES - Physicians and researchers at the USC Roski Eye Institute have collaborated with...
Lizards, mice, bats and other vertebrates are important pollinators too
Credit: Petra Wester Bees are not the only animals that carry pollen from flower to flower. Species with backbones, among...
7-year follow-up shows lasting cognitive gains from meditation
Gains in the ability to sustain attention developed through intensive meditation training are maintained up to seven years later, according...
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...
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...
How genes shape behavior
Credit: Andres Bendesky NEW YORK -- Some species of roundworms are just one millimeter long. Their brains have only 302...
The great acceleration reaches new heights
An international team of researchers, including a CNRS researcher at the department of Écologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés (CNRS...
Practicing Tai Chi helps improve respiratory function in patients with COPD
Credit: CHEST Glenview, IL, April 4, 2018 - Finding ways to help patients with COPD improve their functional status is...
