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Diabetes assessment currently relies on measurement of blood sugar levels -- but a simple saliva sample could replace this, says new research. The study, published...

The short, tumultuous working life of a major league baseball pitcher

There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson points out, these are extreme...

The great NFL practice conundrum: How much should you train to avoid injury?

It seems like the most banal advice you could give an athlete: don't overtrain. And yet, when the National Football League (NFL) and the NFL...

First practice guidelines for clinical evaluation of Alzheimer’s disease

CHICAGO, July 22, 2018 - Despite more than two decades of advances in diagnostic criteria and technology, symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and Related Dementias (ADRD)...

Women under-treated for heart attacks die at twice the rate of men

Published in today's Medical Journal of Australia, the study of 2898 patients (2183 men, 715 women) reveals that six months after hospital discharge, death rates...

First dementia prevalence data in lesbian, gay and bisexual older adults

Chicago, July 22, 2018 - The first dementia prevalence data from a large population of lesbian, gay and bisexual older adults was reported today at...

SF State study compares athlete and truck driver, identical twins

When it comes to being fit, are genes or lifestyle -- nature or nurture -- more important? Researchers at San Francisco State University, CSU Fullerton...

Wearable device from Stanford measures cortisol in sweat

The hormone cortisol rises and falls naturally throughout the day and can spike in response to stress, but current methods for measuring cortisol levels require...

Mother-child communication in plants

Credit: Source: Thomas Laux An international team led by the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has shown that mother plants guide the development...

The need for speed: Why malaria parasites are faster than human immune cells

Credit: Heidelberg University Hospital/ HITS/ ZMBH Malaria parasites of the genus Plasmodium move ten times faster through the skin than immune cells, whose job it...

Single-molecule magnetic tweezers reveal dual function of FACT in gene regulation

In eukaryotic cells, linear genetic DNA wraps around histones to form stable nucleosomes that further assemble to form chromatins. Nucleosomes represent big barriers to the...

Oregon researchers say sea pickles are adapting to the Pacific Northwest

Credit: Photo by Kelly Sutherland EUGENE, Ore. - July 20, 2018 - Tubular colonial jellies known as pyrosomes that arrived in 2014 along North America's...

New findings on intercellular communication

Led by Benoit Vanhollebeke, WELBIO investigator at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the Laboratory of Neurovascular Signaling (ULB's Faculty of Sciences and ULB Neuroscience...

Houseplants could one day monitor home health

Credit: Photo (inset, right) by Francisco Palacios. Design renderings by Susan G. Stewart and Rana Abudayyeh. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In a perspective published in the...

Doctors rely on more than just data for medical decision making