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Evaluating risk of death, complications in patients with heart failure after ambulatory, noncardiac
What The Study Did: Veterans Affairs data for 355,121 patients undergoing ambulatory, elective, noncardiac surgery were used to compare the...
Chemical makers oppose new tariffs
In June, chemical manufacturers converged on Washington, D.C., to urge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to remove...
The path to China’s ‘ecological civilization’ starts with national parks
Credit: Trends in Ecology & Evolution President Xi Jinping staked out China's role as a committed player to tackle the...
How a popular antidepressant drug could rewire the brain
Prozac®, the trade name for the drug fluoxetine, was introduced to the U.S. market for the treatment of depression in...
Maternal obesity linked to childhood cancer
PITTSBURGH, July 10, 2019 - A new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and UPMC...
Patients with mental health conditions denied access to ‘best available’ stop smoking treatments
University of Bath press release A new study from researchers at the Universities of Bath and Bristol suggests that doctors...
Researchers determine bacteria structure responsible for traveler's diarrhea
Discovery may aid in advancement of treatments (Boston)--For the first time researchers have deciphered the near-atomic structure of filaments, called...
Larger drug trials that intervene earlier needed for Alzheimer’s disease
There are currently no drugs that stop or inhibit Alzheimer's disease. Despite drug trials showing plaque reduction in the brain,...
Carbon nanotube tape stays sticky in extreme temperatures
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness...
Are doctors treating more thyroid cancer patients than necessary?
New research may help change treatment practices for patients diagnosed with low risk thyroid cancer PHILADELPHIA -- Nearly a million...
On the way to printable organic light emitting diodes
Researchers are developing an efficient OLED consisting of only one layerCredit: MPI-P Organic light-emitting diodes are components that no longer...
Is elevated systolic blood pressure associated with risk for valvular heart disease?
What The Study Did: A group of 329,237 men and women of white Bristish ancestry with genetic data in the...
Arts & Medicine: Video, articles look back at 1978 novel ‘The House of God’
Bottom Line: The 1978 novel "The House of God" is a fictional account of the internship experience of Samuel Shem, the...
Yale-developed scorecard promotes better clinical trial data sharing
New Haven, Conn. -- A tool developed by researchers at Yale, Stanford, and Bioethics International can promote greater sharing of...
Study examined short-term treatment of internet, computer game addiction
What The Study Did: This randomized clinical trial of 143 men tested a short-term treatment for internet and computer game...
Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course
The titanic duo can help astronomers predict when the historic first detection of the background 'hum' of gravitational waves from...
How to discover new materials quickly
Material researchCredit: RUB, Marqard An unexplored cosmos of potential materials The number of potential new materials that can be assembled...
Mussels are inspiring new technology that could help purify water and clean up oil spills
Mussels are notorious maritime stowaways known for damaging the hulls of boats, but these same adhesive properties have widespread engineering...
Bringing the blockchain into the physical world
A kit made from everyday objects is bringing the blockchain into the physical worldCredit: Irni Khairuddin A kit made from...
Unravelling the 3-dimensional genomic structure of male germ cells
Credit: UAB A study led by scientists of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the National Centre for Genomic...
