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Freestanding emergency departments may increase out-of-pocket spending for patients
Study analyzed freestanding emergency departments in four states, including ArizonaCredit: The University of Arizona Health Sciences PHOENIX - With emergency...
Gender-tailored treatment could ease opioid epidemic
UMass Amherst researcher says prevention needs to start in the primary care settingCredit: UMass Amherst Gender-tailored methods to address the...
Does Medicaid managed care impact obstetrical care and birth outcomes?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 20, 2019--A new study shows that among a set of...
IU team identifies potential target for restoring movement after spinal cord injury
Credit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS -- Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have made several novel discoveries in...
Book looks at how landscape design helps solve water issues
Landscape design research can help solve environmental problems related to water systemsCredit: Courtesy Mary Pat McGuire CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- North...
Immune mystery solved in mice points to better protection from rotavirus in humans
Credit: Jim Oldfield Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered how a brief disruption to a molecular pathway in...
Using a material’s ‘memory’ to encode unique physical properties
A new study shows that, as materials age, they 'remember' prior stresses and external forces, which scientists and engineers can...
From 3D to 2D and back: Reversible conversion of lipid spheres into ultra-thin sheets
Credit: Tokyo Tech An astonishing number of recent technological advances and novel engineering applications go hand in hand with progress...
Counting photons is now routine enough to need standards
Credit: J. Burrus/NIST Since the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built its first superconducting devices for counting photons...
Hepatitis C-positive donors a viable option to expand heart donor pool
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Patients who were transplanted with hearts from hepatitis C-positive donors had comparable outcomes after one...
NIST study suggests universal method for measuring light power
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Always on the lookout for better ways to measure all kinds of things, researchers at the National...
Nightside barrier gently brakes ‘bursty’ plasma bubbles
Physicists extend Rice Convection Model with details of magnetospheric buoyancy wavesCredit: K. Sorathia/JHUAPL HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2019) - The...
SLAS Discovery releases first issue of 2020
Featured article, 'The National Cancer Institute's Plated Compound Sets Can Be a Valuable Resource for Academic Researchers,' now availableCredit: David...
Bern and Fribourg researchers identify neurons responsible for rapid eye movements/REM during sleep
Credit: Courtesy of Carolina Gutierrez Herrera REM - Rapid Eye Movement - is not only the name of a successful...
The Quantum Information Edge launches to accelerate quantum computing R&D
Credit: (Credit: sakkmesterke/Shutterstock) A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum...
UTHealth’s Cynthia Ju awarded NIH grants for liver injury research
Credit: UTHealth Tiny solutions are being sought for big liver problems by a scientist at McGovern Medical School at The...
Bark beetles control pathogenic fungi
Credit: Gernot Kunz Bark beetles control Ants and honeybees share nests of hundreds or thousands of individuals in a very...
Developing drugs that activate defences against tumours
Bielefeld University to coordinate European research networkCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University Doctors treat tumours mainly through surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Over...
Berlin’s bright sky isn’t a bat’s thing
Credit: ISS047-E-29989 courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis People can hardly imagine a city without night-time street lighting. But...
Prospective memory key to performance of everyday life activities in multiple sclerosis
Kessler Foundation MS researchers identify deficits in time-based prospective memory as factors adversely affecting performance of everyday life activitiesCredit: Kessler...
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