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Researchers use fruit flies to understand how body responds to harmful, cold stimuli
Credit: Atit A. Patel and Daniel N. Cox of Georgia State University ATLANTA-The tiny fruit fly can help humans investigate...
Huperzine A provides seizure protection in genetic epilepsy models
Credit: Photo from Wikimedia The compound huperzine A can increase resistance to induced seizures in mouse models of genetic epilepsy,...
Study: UChicago’s CommunityRx intervention helps patients find community resources
New research from the University of Chicago Medicine shows a program that uses electronic medical records to connect Chicagoans with...
American Society of Hematology announces top trainee abstracts of 2016 ASH Annual Meeting
(WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2016) - The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is pleased to recognize the following trainees with the...
Brain scans could help predict response to psychotherapy for anxiety and depression
Nov. 10, 2016 - Brain imaging scans may one day provide useful information on the response to psychotherapy in patients...
How ACOs are trying to improve patients’ health by addressing nonmedical needs
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute Lebanon, NH (Nov. 10, 2016) -- Health care leaders and policy makers agree that in order...
Water, water — the two types of liquid water
There are two types of liquid water, according to research carried out by an international scientific collaboration. This new peculiarity...
Precaution and governance of emerging technologies
Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and...
Study: climate change already dramatically disrupting all elements of nature
Credit: KIT M. KOVACS - CHRISTIAN LYDERSEN NPI Study in journal Science says every aspect of life on earth impacted...
How bacteria make it rain (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2016 -- The oceans are covered with a thin film of organic...
New eye pressure test could prevent vision loss in older adults
Credit: University of Missouri Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Nov. 10, 2016) -- By age 75, approximately half of all Americans will...
Smartphones offer promise in better gauging rural life, researchers find
The use of smartphones enhances self-reporting of weather incidents, school attendance, illness, and other aspects of daily life in rural...
Testing stem cells as possible treatment for heart failure
Credit: Sarah Pack Stem cells are being tested at the Medical University of South Carolina as a possible treatment for...
Patients eager to test device that could ease heart failure symptoms
Credit: Anne Thompson Jimmy McMillan doesn't know if it's science or wishful thinking that's making him feel better, but he's...
Repeatedly thinking about work-family conflict linked to health problems
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Thinking over and over again about conflicts between your job and personal life is likely to damage...
Environmental policy center to convene Great Lakes mayors
Credit: UIC The Freshwater Lab, a University of Illinois at Chicago-based environmental research and policy center, has been awarded two...
Getting doctors and nurses to work together at patient bedsides
The structure of health care systems helps determine how doctors and nurses collaborate during hospital rounds, according to Penn State...
International consortium receives $36.9 million grant to fight typhoid
Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2016 - Typhoid fever, a bacterial infection that causes high fever and other disabling symptoms, remains...
Penn-led team receives DARPA support to develop ‘next generation’ social science
A scientific team led by the University of Pennsylvania has received an award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
UM researchers document ancient and methane-derived carbon in stoneflies
MISSOULA - New research by scientists at the University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station has documented the first example...
