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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...
Is your Easter egg bad for the environment?
With Easter fast approaching, the thought of chocolate is probably on all our minds, but could the UK's love of...
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...
Child sexual abuse in US costs up to $1.5 million per child death, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Child sexual abuse in the United States is costly, with an average lifetime cost of $1.1...
Just one high-fat meal sets the perfect stage for heart disease
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 29, 2018) - A single high-fat milkshake, with a fat...
Twisting graphene into spirals
Credit: Kyoto Univesrity / Matsuda Lab Japan -- It's probably the smallest spring you've ever seen. Researchers from Kyoto University...
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...
Opioid use prevalent among electronic dance music partygoers
One in 10 electronic dance music (EDM) party attendees have misused opioids in the past year, exceeding the national average,...
Herring larvae could benefit from an acidifying ocean
Credit: Photo: KOSMOS/GEOMAR One of the many downsides of too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is what happens when...
Anti-viral components in soybean meal may promote growth and health in pigs
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Swine diets are carefully formulated to provide the perfect balance...
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...
Plastic surgery abroad can lead to severe complications after returning to the US
requiring extensive and costly treatment after they return to the United States, reports a study in the April issue of...
Pitt physicians devise emergency and trauma care referral map for US
Credit: David Wallace/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, March 29, 2018 - In response to repeated calls for an integrated and coordinated...
Effective rehabilitation in COPD
COLOGNE. In Germany, 13.2% of the population older than 40 are affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). By 2020,...
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...
New research award by Fisher & Paykel healthcare to benefit COPD patients
Credit: ATS (New York, NY) - March 29, 2018 - The ATS Foundation is pleased to announce the new ATS...
Hockey victories may increase heart attack risk in Canadian men
Philadelphia, March 29, 2018 - The thrill of a hockey victory may put younger men at an increased risk for...
Hungarian agency powerless in holding healthcare funding decisions to account
An initiative designed to improve transparency in decision-making in Hungary in relation to healthcare lacks the teeth to properly hold...
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...
Anti-aging protein alpha Klotho’s molecular structure revealed
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - March 29, 2018 - Researchers from UT Southwestern's Charles and Jane Pak Center...
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