Health
Suicide risk in abused teen girls linked to mother-daughter conflict
Credit: David Hunt/University of Rochester Teenage girls who were maltreated as children are more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts if...
Adding flavors to e-cigarette liquids changes chemistry, creates irritants
Credit: Shawn Rocco/ Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- As e-cigarette use expands among teens in the U.S., so have vaping...
Dr. Erkut Kucukboyaci of Kessler Foundation named Switzer Research Fellow
Credit: Kessler Foundation Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, has been awarded a...
Cytokine mediates obesity-related factors linked to colorectal cancer
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study describes the mechanistic relationship between the...
Gene-edited zebrafish models take disease research to the next level
Credit: Seattle Children's Advances in optimisation of the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 in zebrafish disease models offer a new level of...
Increased mortality in children with inflammatory bowel disease
Children who develop inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) have an increased risk of death, both in childhood...
$11 million NIH grant creates new center for musculoskeletal research at Clemson
CLEMSON, South Carolina - With an $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Research Excellence,...
How plants bind their green pigment chlorophyll
Credit: Ill./©: Alessandro Agostini, JGU Whenever you see green color out in nature, you are likely to look at chlorophyll....
Pathogens may evade immune response with metal-free enzyme required for DNA replication
Credit: Gavin Palowitch, Penn State Some bacterial pathogens, including those that cause strep throat and pneumonia, are able to create...
For preterm infants, skin-to-skin contact affects
October 18, 2018 - For premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), skin-to-skin contact with parents influences levels...
Communism continues to cause heavy drinking in Eastern European countries
Researchers from the School of Economics set out to establish to what extent living under communism, both in terms of...
Medicating distress: Risky sedative prescriptions for older adults vary widely
Credit: University of Michigan Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk...
Managing the complexities and risks of HIV and tuberculosis coinfection
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study identified a significant association between HIV...
Canadian-led international study shows huge costs of delayed access to stroke care
TODAY'S CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS Late-breaking trials Systemic thrombolysis in patients with known and unknown time window. A pre-specified subgroup analysis of...
Kids health outcomes have more to do with parents level of education than income
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite differences...
To track how students ace the LSAT, watch their eyes
Credit: Video courtesy of Silvia Bunge A half-decade ago, UC Berkeley neuroscientists discovered that training for law school admission exams...
Children with autism, developmental delays nearly 50 percent more likely to be overweight, obese
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, October 17, 2018--A new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the...
People who commute through natural environments daily report better mental health
Credit: Photo by Alua Magzumova on Unsplash According to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health...
Colored filter improves dyslexic children’s reading speed
Credit: Milena Razuk Reading, one of the most difficult activities for children with dyslexia, can be improved by the use...
With a microbe-produced toxin, bacteria prove old dogs can learn new tricks
Credit: Mougous Lab/UW Medicine A newly discovered toxin that some bacteria deploy to fend off competing bacteria stands out from...
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