Opioid doctor and pharmacy ‘shoppers’ may also shop at home, study finds
Insurance records reveal patterns of opioid prescribing to patients whose family members seek opioids from multiple sources and fill them at multiple pharmacies As states...
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What is association of age with risk of death for ICU patients?
Bottom Line: This study of nearly 134,000 patients admitted to intensive care units in France examined the association of age with risk of death in...
Better microring sensors for optical applications
Credit: Ramy El-Ganainy and Qi Zhong Optical sensing is one of the most important applications of light science. It plays crucial roles in astronomy, environmental...
Post-bypass survival linked to civil status and class
Credit: Photo by Laila Ostlund Civil status, education, and income are factors shown to be clearly associated with duration of survival after a bypass operation....
A surprising experiment opens the path to new particle manipulation methods
Unexpected result from acoustics experiment could have applications in biomedical and microsystems researchCredit: Aalto University Researchers at Aalto University have discovered a surprising phenomenon that...
Tech-saavy people more likely to trust digital doctors
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Would you trust a robot to diagnose your cancer? According to researchers at Penn State, people with high confidence in machine...
People more likely to trust machines than humans with their private information
GLASGOW, Scotland -- Not everyone fears our machine overlords. In fact, according to Penn State researchers, when it comes to private information and access to...
Time of day associated with physicians ordering cancer screenings, patients completing them
Bottom Line: The time of day of a primary care appointment was associated with the likelihood of a physician ordering cancer screenings and of patients...
2D insulators with ferromagnetism are rare; researchers just identified a new one
Credit: Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy Collaborating scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Princeton University have discovered...
Measuring quality of life after pediatric kidney transplant
Credit: Children's National VANCOUVER, British Columbia - After receiving a kidney transplant, children may experience quality-of-life difficulties that underscore the importance of screening transplant recipients...
Believing machines can out-do people may fuel acceptance of self-driving cars
GLASGOW, Scotland -- In order for self-driving cars to hit the streets, more people may need to concede that machines can outperform humans, at least...
Cancer screening rates decline when patients see doctors later in day
Compared to patients who see their primary care doctor earlier in the day, cancer screening rates decline significantly as the day goes on, according to...
A dance of two: Tailoring interactions between remote fluids of excitons
Credit: Paulo V. Santos, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Ronen Rapaport An international collaboration involving European, Israeli, and US scientists realize for the first time strong and...
A metal sheet stamping simulation promises improved car part production
Kanazawa University-led researchers simulate the industrial process of stamping features into metal sheets without causing the sheets to tear, twist, or bend to aid fabrication...
Increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder among children with immigrant father
Children born in Finland who had an immigrant father were two times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than those with two Finnish parents,...
