Health
Should STEMI patients recover in the ICU?
Credit: Michigan Medicine A trip to an intensive care unit can be more than twice as costly as a stay...
Snout dated: Slow-evolving elephant shark offers new insights into human physiology
Using different steroid hormones to activate a hormone receptor in a cartilaginous fish provides insights into origins and later evolution...
Insilico Medicine to present its latest research at ICML 2019
Insilico Medicine scientists to present their latest achievements in applications of machine learning to drug discovery at the ICML EXPOCredit:...
Early lives of Alaska sockeye salmon accelerating with climate change
Credit: Jason Ching/University of Washington An ample buffet of freshwater food, brought on by climate change, is altering the life...
Home exercise program reduces rate of falling in at-risk seniors
An in-home exercise program reduced subsequent falls in high-risk seniors by 36 per cent, according the results of a 12-month...
Do images of food on kids’ clothes influence eating behavior?
A U-M study finds that junk food imagery on clothes is fairly common, especially on apparel marketed for girls ANN...
Lymphoma trial finds combination targeted therapy effective prior to chemotherapy
MD Anderson Phase II study suggests patients with lymphoma subtype may be able to avoid chemotherapy in the futureCredit: MD...
Best practices of nucleic acid amplification tests for the diagnosis of clostridioides (clostridium)
Washington, DC - June 3, 2019 - A new review looks at the challenges of testing for Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile...
How chronic inflammation may drive down dopamine and motivation
A computational method to experimentally test a theory Growing evidence shows that the brain's dopamine system, which drives motivation, is...
Female cannabis users underrepresented in health research, study reveals
Research at the University of York has shown that women are underrepresented in research into links between cannabis and psychosis,...
Sleepless nights linked to high blood pressure
A bad night's sleep may result in a spike in blood pressure that night and the following day, according to...
Opioids are not sleep aids, and can actually worsen sleep research finds
University of Warwick led study with Lausanne, Switzerland found patients on a low to high dose of opioids reported only...
Vulnerability to Ebola and Lassa fever can now be properly assessed
Identifying vulnerabilities to outbreaks of Ebola and Lassa fever is possible following new research from the University of Surrey and...
Speeding up potato cultivation by using new methods
Millions in funding for HHU plant researchCredit: HHU / V. Prigge There are several thousand different varieties of Solanum tuberosum,...
Many kids with pneumonia get unnecessary antibiotics, chest X-rays
Preschool children with community-acquired pneumonia often receive unnecessary tests and treatment at outpatient clinics and emergency departments, according to a...
Zebrafish capture a ‘window’ on the cancer process
Credit: University of Bristol Cancer-related inflammation impacts significantly on cancer development and progression. New research has observed in zebrafish, for...
VR view of design for Syrian refugee shelter wins first prize in national science photography
An image of a Syrian refugee using virtual reality to help researchers design a shelter has been chosen as the...
A combination of insecticides and mite weakens honeybees
Credit: Geoffrey R. Williams The Western honeybee is the most important managed pollinator globally and has recently experienced unsustainably high...
Association for Molecular Pathology expresses serious concerns with Congress’ attempt to resurrect human gene patenting debate and reverse settled Supreme Court ruling
Draft legislation would overturn 150 years of patent case law, prevent the development of life-saving diagnostics for devastating diseases, dramatically...
You survived a heart attack — now what about the depression?
Sophia Antipolis, 4 June 2019: Heart attack patients with prolonged depression or anxiety are at a higher risk of death....
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