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Hospital, office physicians have differing laments about electronic records
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study reports widespread agreement among physicians that maintaining electronic health records (EHRs) undermines their connection...
Penn interactive map shows community traits built from more than 37 billion tweets
Credit: World Well-Being Project, University of Pennsylvania It's no secret that communities across the United States differ greatly. Researchers from...
Ancient animal thought to be first air breather on land loses claim to fame
Credit: University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences AUSTIN, Texas -- Some good scientific sleuthing by an undergraduate at The...
New brain cancer drug targets revealed
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and The Cleveland Clinic designed a way to screen brain tumor...
Ancient fungi could help Canada’s future northern forests
Credit: UBC Okanagan As Canada's vast boreal and tundra ecosystems experience dramatic warming due to climate change, trees are rapidly...
Marijuana and vulnerability to psychosis
MONTREAL, July 5, 2017 - Going from an occasional user of marijuana to a weekly or daily user increases an...
Skin plays significant role in spread of leishmaniasis
Scientists at the University of York have discovered that parasites responsible for leishmaniasis - a globally occurring neglected tropical disease...
Digital communication improves young patient engagement, according to new study
Credit: University of Warwick Digital communication improves young patient engagement, according to new study valued as an addition to traditional...
Reconciling predictions of climate change
Harvard University researchers have resolved a conflict in estimates of how much the Earth will warm in response to a...
Working together to reduce infection in extreme weather events
Lead researcher Dr Aparna Lal from The Australian National University (ANU) said health researchers were often left out of planning...
Alcohol consumption putting vast majority of Europeans at risk of digestive cancers
Credit: UEG (Vienna, 4 July, 2017) Citizens across the EU are consuming an average of 2 alcoholic drinks per day,...
Study finds automated embryo assessment system more accurate than that of embryologists
Geneva, 4 July 2017: Embryo quality has long been considered the main determinant of implantation and pregnancy in IVF. Morphology...
DNA of early Neanderthal gives timeline for new modern human-related dispersal from Africa
Credit: © Photo Museum Ulm Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the femur of an archaic European hominin is helping to resolve...
DYNAMO joins the war on diabetic kidney disease
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, 4 July 2017 - Including investigators from all three medical schools in Singapore, as well...
Ca2+, the intercellular signal in arterioles
Vasoconstriction must be balanced with vasodilation, particularly in the arterioles that supply tissues with blood. Endothelial cells protrude through holes...
Local views key to unlocking ways to fairer and more successful nature conservation
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows how a policy aimed at ensuring the world's protected...
Removal of invasive shrub could be an easy way to help reduce malaria transmission
Credit: Muller et al., Malaria Journal, 2017' Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a...
Mapping genes could improve cancer diagnosis
Large-scale changes to the structure of the genome are often seen in cancer cells. Scientists at the Babraham Institute in...
Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone rodent
The sand rat Psammomys obesus is a gerbil species native to deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, and...
Genetics may lie at the heart of crop yield limitation
Credit: Dr Nick Pullen You might think that plants grow according to how much nutrition, water and sunlight they are...
