Health
Graphene and related materials safety: human health and the environment
Credit: Fotolia / Graphene Flagship As the drive to commercialise graphene continues, it is important that all safety aspects are...
Keeping astronauts healthy during deep space missions
When you get sick, a doctor or hospital is typically right down the road, a couple hours away at most....
GSK and Sanofi join FinnGen, a large scale genome study of the Finnish population
The FinnGen study, launched in autumn 2017, is a broad academic-industrial collaboration between the Finnish biobanks and their respective Universities,...
The second volume of Frontiers in Ceramic Science is now available
This book is by Dr. Moisés R. Cesário, Dr. Daniel A. de Macedo, Dr. Cédric Gennequin & Dr. Edmond Abi-Aad,...
Exercise before surgery can protect both muscle and nerves, study suggests
Exercise expert seeks to prevent damage caused by restoration of blood flowCredit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Exercise can...
Study identifies new genes associated with the leading cause of blindness
A new study, published in Clinical Epigenetics, identifies genes associated with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) that could represent new targets...
Antiepileptic drugs linked to accumulation of hospital days in persons with Alzheimer's disease
People with Alzheimer's disease who used antiepileptic drugs had a higher number of accumulated hospital days than people with Alzheimer's...
Investigators close in on best treatment guidelines for critical limb ischemia
1,572 patients enrolled in ongoing trial Critical limb ischemia (CLI), a manifestation of peripheral arterial disease, is a debilitating and...
Blood test shows promise for early detection of severe lung-transplant rejection
New tool that uses DNA sequencing could improve transplant outcomes and save livesCredit: NHLBI Researchers have developed a simple blood...
Specialist-led bereavement service may help curb legal action after hospital deaths
Relevant specialist, matron, and quality and safety lead involvement key to approach, say study authors Hospital bereavement services that are...
Body size may influence women's lifespan more than it does men's
And 60 minutes of daily physical activity was associated with the best chance of reaching 90 for women Body size-height...
Leaving 2-hour gap between dinner and bedtime may not affect blood glucose
Practice thought to be good for health and to lower risk of lifestyle diseases Leaving a two-hour gap between the...
How our brains distinguish between self-touch and touch by others
Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Our brains seem to reduce sensory perception from an area of our skin when we touch...
Youthful cognitive ability strongly predicts mental capacity later in life
Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) -- the diverse set...
Mice pass on brain benefits of enriched upbringing to offspring
Life experience may be transmitted from one generation to the next through changes in gene expression, parental caretakingCredit: Kalogeraki, Yusifov,...
Implantable device curbs seizures and improves cognition in epileptic rats
Approach reduces seizures by 93 percent in three monthsCredit: Giovanna Paolone A protein-secreting device implanted into the hippocampus of epileptic...
How concussions may lead to epilepsy
New animal model could improve understanding of post-traumatic epilepsyCredit: Alexys Harrington Researchers have identified a cellular response to repeated concussions...
Some pregnant women don't believe cannabis is harmful to their fetus
Credit: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute Up to one-third of pregnant women do not believe cannabis is harmful to their...
Blood test detects Alzheimer's damage before symptoms
Test also may identify neurodegeneration in other brain diseases, injuries A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage...
Early prediction of Alzheimer's progression in blood
Publication in Nature Medicine Years before symptoms of Alzheimer's disease manifest, the brain starts changing and neurons are slowly degraded....
