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Women who suffered eemotional or physical abuse or neglect as children likely to have more frequent physiologically assessed hot flashes during sleep CLEVELAND, Ohio (June...

Unsalted tomato juice may help lower heart disease risk

In a study published in Food Science & Nutrition, drinking unsalted tomato juice lowered blood pressure and LDL cholesterol in Japanese adults at risk of...

Dietary supplements linked with severe health events in children, young adults

Key takeaways: Compared with vitamins, dietary supplements sold for weight loss, muscle building, and energy were associated with nearly three times the risk of severe...

Working landscapes can support diverse bird species

Forest patches are opportunities to conserve wildlifeCredit: Daniel Karp/UC Davis Privately-owned, fragmented forests in Costa Rica can support as many vulnerable bird species as can...

Plan Universal calls on funders to encourage preprints

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Dr. John Inglis and Dr. Richard Sever, founders of bioRxiv from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), and Dr. Michael Eisen,...

Pathogens may have facilitated the evolution of warm-blooded animals

Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creaturesCredit: Michael Logan Six hundred million years ago, fever appeared in animals as a response...

Researchers identify link between more frequent, intense heat events and deaths in Las Vegas

Credit: DRI Over the last several decades, extreme heat events around the world--particularly in the American Southwest--have gotten hotter, occurred more frequently, and lasted longer....

Dartmouth study reveals how ACOs use home visits to improve care and reduce hospital use

A new Dartmouth-led study, published this week in the June issue of Health Affairs, offers new details about how one key approach--home visits--is helping many...

Facial bones of black adults age differently than other races, Rutgers study finds

Study has implications for cosmetic surgery, which black individuals seek twice as often as whites Facial bones in black adults maintain higher mineral density as...

WVU study: Diabetics exposed to common household chemicals have lower heart disease rates

Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Chemicals found in nonstick cookware, cleaning products and paint may help lead to new treatments for heart disease in diabetic adults, according...

Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system

Feeding 10 billion people and keeping Earth from overheating this century require not only major changes to agriculture, but transformation of the entire food system,...

Deep learning techniques teach neural model to ‘play’ retrosynthesis

Columbia chemical engineers train a neural network model to plan synthetic routes to any target molecule, optimizing user-specified objectives such as cost, time, and sustainabilityCredit:...

NASA-NOAA satellite sees system 91L’s eeach into the western gulf of Mexico

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) System 91L is an area of tropical low pressure located in the Bay of...

Mount Sinai scientist awarded $8 million for research on environmental factors on health

(New York, NY - June 4, 2019) -- A theory that proposes the existence of a dynamic interface between the environment and human physiology over...

Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe