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Study follows the health of older adults with prediabetes problems
Credit: Ying Shang In a Journal of Internal Medicine study that followed older adults with prediabetes for 12 years, most...
Alzheimer’s therapy may help overcome opioid addiction
Clinical trial results reveal that a medication used to treat Alzheimer's disease may also be an effective therapy for individuals...
New study links childhood abuse with hot flash frequency
Women who suffered eemotional or physical abuse or neglect as children likely to have more frequent physiologically assessed hot flashes...
Unsalted tomato juice may help lower heart disease risk
In a study published in Food Science & Nutrition, drinking unsalted tomato juice lowered blood pressure and LDL cholesterol in...
Dietary supplements linked with severe health events in children, young adults
Key takeaways: Compared with vitamins, dietary supplements sold for weight loss, muscle building, and energy were associated with nearly three...
Working landscapes can support diverse bird species
Forest patches are opportunities to conserve wildlifeCredit: Daniel Karp/UC Davis Privately-owned, fragmented forests in Costa Rica can support as many...
Plan Universal calls on funders to encourage preprints
Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Dr. John Inglis and Dr. Richard Sever, founders of bioRxiv from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
Pathogens may have facilitated the evolution of warm-blooded animals
Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creaturesCredit: Michael Logan Six hundred million years ago, fever appeared...
Researchers identify link between more frequent, intense heat events and deaths in Las Vegas
Credit: DRI Over the last several decades, extreme heat events around the world--particularly in the American Southwest--have gotten hotter, occurred...
Dartmouth study reveals how ACOs use home visits to improve care and reduce hospital use
A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the June issue of Health Affairs, offers new details about how one...
Facial bones of black adults age differently than other races, Rutgers study finds
Study has implications for cosmetic surgery, which black individuals seek twice as often as whites Facial bones in black adults...
WVU study: Diabetics exposed to common household chemicals have lower heart disease rates
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Chemicals found in nonstick cookware, cleaning products and paint may help lead to new treatments for heart...
Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system
Feeding 10 billion people and keeping Earth from overheating this century require not only major changes to agriculture, but transformation...
Deep learning techniques teach neural model to ‘play’ retrosynthesis
Columbia chemical engineers train a neural network model to plan synthetic routes to any target molecule, optimizing user-specified objectives such...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees system 91L’s eeach into the western gulf of Mexico
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) System 91L is an area of tropical low pressure...
Mount Sinai scientist awarded $8 million for research on environmental factors on health
(New York, NY - June 4, 2019) -- A theory that proposes the existence of a dynamic interface between the...
Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Credit: Michigan Engineering ANN ARBOR--It's one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun--why is its outer...
No increased risk of birth defects in children of fathers treated for testicular cancer
New research has found no increased risk of congenital malformations associated with treatment with radiotherapy or chemotherapy in children of...
Kessler Foundation awarded six grants by New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
Researchers received six grants totaling nearly $2.0 million to investigate novel ways to improve quality of life for individuals with...
Bats have an ambulance in their ears
Credit: Virginia Tech Anybody who has been passed by an ambulance at high speed has experienced a physical effect called...
