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Your office may be affecting your health
Workers in open office seating had less daytime stress and greater daytime activity levels compared to workers in private offices...
Helping surgical patients taper off opioids safely and successfully
(Monday, August 20, 2018 - Toronto) - A unique pain program is helping complex surgical patients wean off opioids safely...
Gene therapy vectors carrying the telomerase gene do not increase the risk of cancer
Credit: CNIO Negative results and findings in science are perhaps less newsworthy, but they are no less important. Particularly when,...
Sex in plants requires thrust
Credit: Anja Geitmann In a paper to be published in the September 2018 issue of TECHNOLOGY, the thrust produced by...
Proposal seeks to improve assessment of drug risks
A drug policy researcher is proposing a suite of changes to overhaul the Multi-Criteria Drug Harm Scale (MCDHS), which informs...
Impact of osteoporosis on the risk of dementia in almost 60,000 patients
Credit: IMS Health and Quintiles Frankfurt, Germany, August 20, 2018: Osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women across the...
Rogue proteins may underlie some ALS and frontotemporal dementia cases, says study
Credit: Aarti Sharma /Columbia University ALS -- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- is a neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons in...
New information on brain areas linked to tactile sense and metacognitive ability
(University of Helsinki) A new doctoral thesis gives information on the neural basis of the sense of touch. According to...
Adults play a key role in children’s participation in school recess, researchers suggest
CORVALLIS, Ore. - When adults are participants in school recess - leading games, monitoring play and ensuring conflicts are mediated...
In teen friendships, misery does love company
Credit: Florida Atlantic University A new study on adolescent friendships offers support for the belief that misery really does love...
Study finds racial disparities in prescribing opioids for chronic pain
New Haven, Conn.-- Yale researchers have identified racial disparities in the treatment of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic...
Two molecules offer great potential to combat cancer and chronic infections
SAN FRANCISCO--August 20, 2018--To fight viral infections, your immune system calls on CD8 T cells to kill the infected cells....
Nanoparticles in our environment may have more harmful effects than we think
Credit: University of Southern Denmark Researchers warn that a combination of nanoparticles and contaminants may form a cocktail that is...
The 5th Annual Aging and Drug Discovery Forum at the Basel Life Conference 2018
Monday, August 20th, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for...
Progress toward plugging an antibiotic pump
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Each year in the U.S., at least 23,000 people die from infections caused...
Chagas disease, caused by a parasite, has spread outside of Latin America and carries a high risk of heart disease
DALLAS, Aug. 20, 2018 -- Chagas disease, caused by infection with a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi (T cruzi), causes chronic...
Listeria surveillance: New EU-wide study reveals that most outbreaks remain undetected
Credit: Eurosurveillance More than half of the severe listeriosis cases in the European Union belong to clusters, many of which...
New research reveals how the body clock controls inflammation
Credit: Patrick Bolger Researchers at RCSI and Trinity College Dublin have revealed insights into how the body clock controls the...
Nearly 2 in 5 teen drivers text while driving
Cellphone use while driving has been estimated to increase crash risk by 2-9 times and texting while driving may be...
BU researcher receives DoD grant to study TBI, military service in AD
(Boston)--Jesse Mez, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a three-year, $1.2...
