Breast cancer screening associated with substantial overdiagnosis
1. Breast cancer screening associated with substantial overdiagnosis in Danish study Screening was not associated with a reduction in advanced ...
January/February 2017 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
In this issue, the National Commission on Prevention Priorities publishes a much anticipated update to its 2006 ranking of clinical ...
Prostate cancer treatment rates drop, reflecting change in screening recommendations
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men ...
Aggressive prostate cancer secrets revealed in landmark study
Credit: Monash University A landmark study, led by Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute with the involvement of the Peter MacCallum ...
New framework could help online addicts reduce their usage
Credit: Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY - Research has shown that internet addicts do not always feel guilty about their usage, ...
Brain cell powerhouses appear good treatment target for stroke, TBI recovery
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 9, 2017) - Cell powerhouses are typically long and lean, but with brain injury ...
What teeth reveal about the lives of modern humans
COLUMBUS, Ohio - When anthropologists of the future find our fossilized teeth, what will they be able to conclude about ...
Model sheds light on inhibitory neurons’ computational role
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in ...
New Midwestern University research suggests appendix may have important function
Credit: Brent Adrian, Senior Research Associate, Midwestern University The human appendix, a narrow pouch that projects off the cecum in ...
Finding inspiration in the stars
Credit: Jakub Ostrowski Looking to the stars for inspiration, astrophysicist Lars Bildsten, director of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for ...
The strange double life of Dab2
Credit: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center MIAMI, January 9, 2017 - Sometimes proteins do a lot more than we expect. Dab2, ...
El Niño, Pacific Decadal Oscillation implicated in domoic acid shellfish toxicity
(Oregon State University) Researchers today reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a strong correlation between toxic levels ...
Warmer West Coast ocean conditions linked to increased risk of toxic shellfish
Credit: NOAA Hazardous levels of domoic acid, a natural toxin that accumulates in shellfish, have been linked to warmer ocean ...
Speeding up 19th century oil paintings
The fluid and loose brushwork used by J.W.M. Turner and other innovative 19th century artists to capture the momentary effects ...
Lars Bildsten wins 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Credit: Jakub Ostrowski WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2017 -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society ...
President Obama believes US clean energy trend ‘irreversible’
In this Policy Forum, President Obama, the 44th and current President of the United States, conveys his belief that "...trends ...
Brain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb
Even before they are born, premature babies may display alterations in the circuitry of their developing brains, according to a ...
Massive genetic study of humpback whales to inform conservation assessments
Credit: Darryl MacDonald New York (January 9, 2017) - Scientists have published one of the largest genetic studies ever conducted ...
New findings detail structure of immature Zika virus
Credit: (Purdue University image courtesy of Kuhn and Rossmann research groups) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Researchers at Purdue University have ...
Fear of diagnostic low-dose radiation exposure is overstated, experts assert
Reston, Va. -- In an article published in the January 2017 issue of "The Journal of Nuclear Medicine," researchers assert ...
