‘Traffic light’ food labels reduce calories purchased in hospital cafeteria
BOSTON - A new study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators released today in JAMA Network Open, a publication of the Journal of the American...
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Are physical examinations really necessary?
Family physicians' experiences of physical examination As technology has gained ground in medicine and critics have called into question the diagnostic accuracy of physical examinations,...
New research helps predict locations of blue whales so ships can avoid them
App now in development will put information in the hands of ship crews and managersCredit: John Calambokidis/Cascadia Research Collective A new model based on daily...
Nuclear physics in search of world artifacts
The first 3D images of the oldest Christian church in Russia were obtainedCredit: © NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists together with the colleagues from P.N....
Keeping a cell’s powerhouse in shape
Credit: Daumke Lab, MDC A German-Swiss team around Professor Oliver Daumke from the MDC has investigated how a protein of the dynamin family deforms the...
The Zika epidemic in Cuba, reflected by imported cases in Barcelona
A study confirms the key role of imported disease clinics in the surveillance and prevention of arboviral diseases in EuropeCredit: Ross Parmly / Unsplash Travellers...
Giving nanowires a DNA-like twist
Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory We see crystals all around us: snowflakes, ice cubes, table salt, gemstones, to name a few. Invisible to the naked...
Sloppy sea urchins
Marine scientists discover an important, overlooked role sea urchins play in the kelp forest ecosystem Sea urchins have gotten a bad rap on the Pacific...
Realization of a 20-year-old dream: the International Society of Chinese Health Practices
Credit: UA Health Sciences TUCSON, Ariz. - A chance meeting nearly 20 years ago sparked a dream between two men. Now, two universities nearly 7,000...
ICARUS has been switched on: Testing has started
Credit: University of Konstanz To analyze global animal movements from space and to understand how large numbers of animals and their movements interact with ecosystems:...
Cells synchronize to release toxins in unison
Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service Crouching in the boot-sucking mud of the Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, Manu Prakash, associate professor of bioengineering at...
Shingles vaccine safely prevents outbreaks among stem cell transplant patients
The study could offer hope to others with severely compromised immune systems DURHAM, N.C. - A newer form of shingles vaccine reduced outbreaks of the...
UNH research finds thicker pavement is more cost effective down the road
DURHAM, N.H. - As the summer months heat up, so will the asphalt and other materials used to make roads. Pavements, which are vulnerable to...
In UK’s third largest city intervention program helps reduce childhood obesity
Credit: Bar-Ilan University Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions, affecting children's health and wellbeing and leading to obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer later in...
New filter enhances robot vision on 6D pose estimation
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Aeropsace Engineering Robots are good at making identical repetitive movements, such as a simple task on an assembly line....
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