Social sciences & health innovations: Making health public
The international conference "Social Sciences & Health Innovations: Making Health Public" is the third event organized as a collaborative endeavor ...
Fly larvae clean bee-eater’s nest
Credit: Herbert Hoi/Vetmeduni Vienna Birds share their nests with a rich community of other inhabitants like parasites and mainly invertebrates, ...
Right timing is crucial in life
Credit: Copyright: Tobias Kaiser The non-biting marine midge Clunio marinus lives along Europe's tide-shapen coasts, where precise timing is of ...
Pregnant women at risk of getting the flu are not getting vaccinated
Credit: UBC Health-care professionals are hesitant to administer the flu vaccine to pregnant women, despite the potential life-saving benefits, according ...
No association between sex-discordant blood transfusions and risk of death
In a study published in the journal Circulation researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Lund University examined how sex-discordant blood transfusions ...
Novel type of cell death in Huntington’s disease may lead to effective new therapies
Credit: Department of Neuropathology,Medical Research Institute Researchers centered at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify novel type of cell ...
Road salt can change sex ratios in frog populations, study says
Naturally occurring chemicals found in road salts commonly used to de-ice paved surfaces can alter the sex ratios in nearby ...
Research shows preference for non-lethal protection of species
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Americans believe endangered species are best protected when their habitats are protected and not when animal predators ...
Diabetes proves deadly for smokers
CHICAGO - While it is well known that smoking causes lung cancer, heavy smokers with diabetes are also at increased ...
Spray-printed crystals to move forward organic electronic applications
Has the time come to replace traditionally used silicon with printable organic semiconductor inks? University of Surrey scientists believe so, ...
Protein and salt drive post-meal sleepiness
Credit: Keith Murphy Sleepiness after a large meal is something we all experience, and new research with fruit flies suggests ...
Emergency video telemedicine positively impacts newborn resuscitation
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Approximately 10 percent of newborns require help breathing after birth, and 1 in 1,000 newborns require more ...
Sex, gender, or both in medical research
No one can deny that men and women have different genes, biology and anatomical features. However, only a minority of ...
Global brain initiatives generate tsunami of neuroscience data
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Three years ago the White House launched the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to ...
Bridging the advances in AI and quantum computing for drug discovery and longevity research
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc and YMK Photonics, Inc Tuesday, 22nd of November, 2016, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc and ...
New antiretroviral drugs decrease chances of HIV sexual transmission
Credit: IDIBELL More than 2 million people got infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2015, being sexual transmission the ...
Researchers capture first glimpse of important, abundant ocean microbe
Credit: Patrick Keeling A rare microbe that was once thought to be insignificant has turned out to be one of ...
Prevalence of Ph-like ALL in adults underscores need for genetic testing, clinical trials
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Seth Dixon A high-risk subtype of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) first identified in ...
Targeted therapy drugs could radically increase the costs of leukemia treatment
Adoption of novel oral targeted therapies for treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) could raise the treatment costs for the ...
New topical immunotherapy effective against early skin cancer
Credit: Robert Boston A combination of two topical drugs that have been in use for years triggers a robust immune ...
