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BU researcher receives competitive $100,000 NIH grant
(Boston) -- Duo Zhang, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received the highly competitive...
How can we help children with brain injuries transition back to school?
Amsterdam, NL, May 15, 2018 - Children with brain injuries face significant challenges when transitioning from hospital or home to...
New study sheds light on how we perceive color
When we view natural images the colours we perceive are due to colour information at every local patch of an...
In era of #MeToo, majority of employees say their employers fail to take new steps addressing sexual harassment
WASHINGTON -- The spotlight on workplace sexual harassment since fall 2017 has led to high-profile resignations, terminations and lawsuits. And...
Mathematical methods for diagnosing breast cancer
Credit: KTU The team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania are developing mathematical methods which could help diagnose...
437 million tons of fish, $560 billion wasted due to destructive fishing operations
Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437 million tonnes of fish and missed out on $560 billion in...
Study: Superbug MRSA infections less costly, but still deadly
Credit: Public Health Image Library DALLAS - May 15, 2018 - Staph infections, whether MRSA (resistant to methicillin) or susceptible,...
National trial: EEG brain tests help patients overcome depression
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 15, 2018 - Imagine millions of depressed Americans getting their brain activity measured and...
Per-capita end-of-life spending is decreasing rapidly, according to new study
Credit: via JAMA IM Health economists have long considered end-of-life spending to be one of the major contributors to the...
Six years of exercise — or lack of it — may be enough to change heart failure risk
By analyzing reported physical activity levels over time in more than 11,000 American adults, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that...
Drug companies selling more ‘lifestyle,’ less ‘symptom’
TAMPA, Fla. (May 15, 2018)- Prescription drug commercials are getting longer and providing less factual information. A study published in...
MDMA opens door for PTSD sufferers
When lasting trauma is caused by callous acts of violence, the key to recovery can be making meaning out of...
Researchers identify the most accurate risk prediction models for selecting whom to screen
Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine....
Study hints at new target to improve immune therapy in triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Therapies that recruit the immune system to attack tumors are revolutionizing cancer care. Among...
Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs
URBANA, Ill. - For scientists, estimating the extent of and cost of damages from climate change over the next 100...
Early BPA exposure may influence cardiac function, according to new study in neonatal rats
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - (May 14, 2018) - More than 8 million pounds of bisphenol A (BPA)...
Hungry, hungry hippos
The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in...
Altered body odor indicates malaria even if microscope doesn’t
Credit: Jim Gathany / CDC Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria...
Deadly cancers show early, detectable differences from benign tumors
DURHAM, N.C. - Do metastatic cancer tumors "break bad" or are they "born bad"? This question is an essential mystery...
Simple equation directs creation of clean-energy catalysts
New guidelines laid down by Nebraska and Chinese researchers could steer the design of less costly, more efficient catalysts geared...