Heart disease, depression linked by inflammation: study
Coronary artery disease and major depression may be genetically linked via inflammatory pathways to an increased risk for cardiomyopathy, a degenerative heart muscle disease, researchers...
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Illinois study identifies atmospheric and economic drivers of global air pollution
URBANA, Ill. – Carbon monoxide emissions from industrial production have serious consequences for human health and are a strong indicator of overall air pollution levels....
Cathie Biga is new American College of Cardiology president
Cathie Biga, MSN, FACC, today became president of the American College of Cardiology and made history as the organization’s first non-physician president. She will serve...
Dr. Himabindu Vidula is new chair of ACC Board of Governors
Effective today, Himabindu Vidula, MD, MS, FACC, will serve as chair of the American College of Cardiology Board of Governors (BOG) and secretary of the...
New study shows renewable energy could work as power source at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
A recent analysis shows that renewable energy could be a viable alternative to diesel fuel for science at the South Pole. The analysis deeply explores...
WVU psychologist ‘reverse engineers’ slot machines to better understand compulsive gambling
A West Virginia University researcher is studying slot machines to determine what makes them a potentially addictive form of gambling.Credit: WVU Photo/Brian Persinger A West...
New diagnostic tool achieves accuracy of PCR tests with faster and simpler nanopore system
Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen...
Your unsupportive partner is physically stressing you out
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Couples feel more understood and cared for when their partners show positive support skills – and it’s evidenced by levels of the...
Preventive angioplasty does not improve prognosis
For heart attack patients, treating only the coronary artery that caused the infarction works just as well as preventive balloon dilation of the other coronary...
Protecting art and passwords with biochemistry
Security experts fear Q-Day, the day when quantum computers become so powerful that they can crack today’s passwords. Some experts estimate that this day will...
Coral researchers awarded EXIST start-up funding
Coral farming based on sexual propagation, leading to a more sustainable coral trade and helping to protect coral reefs – this is the goal of...
How plants adjust their photosynthesis to changing light
Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team from Bergen, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Münster and Potsdam headed by Heinrich Heine University...
Barbie may help physicians, patients have more productive telehealth visits
As telehealth visits become more prevalent, physicians can sometimes struggle to help patients effectively demonstrate a musculoskeletal exam through a screen.Credit: Michigan Medicine As telehealth...
Unveiling the world’s skin: a map of global land cover from 2000-2020
A new study introduces the Hybrid Global Annual 1-km International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Land Cover Maps for the period 2000-2020. This innovative dataset, free to...
Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones”
The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones – relatively speaking. Indeed, if our eyes were proportionally as big as the ones of...
