Seismic safety upgrades may cost CA hospitals billions
California hospitals would need to make substantial investments - between $34 billion and $143 billion statewide - to meet 2030 state seismic safety standards, according...
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WHO guidelines fail to detect half of chronic hepatitis B patients in Ethiopia needing treatment
Scientists propose revising the guidelines to take data from sub-Saharan Africa into account, reports the Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March 28, 2018 - Current World...
UTSA receives $2.2 million in geological software for sub-surface visualization
(San Antonio, Mar. 27, 2019) - The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received an in-kind software donation estimated at $2.2 million from...
New tool uses RNA sequencing to chart rich maps of cellular and tissue function
Slide-seq technique generates high-resolution maps of cellular relationships in tissues, without the need for a microscopeCredit: Macosko/Chen labs A new technique developed by scientists at...
New study calculates alcohol cancer risk in cigarette equivalents to help communicate risk
The well-established link between cancer and tobacco may provide a way to help communicate the links between moderate levels of alcohol and cancer, and raise...
Poor oral health may increase the risk of pancreatic cancer among African American women
(Boston)-- African American women with poor oral health may be more likely to get pancreatic cancer (PC). In the U.S., studies show that African Americans...
Maternal diet during pregnancy may modulate the risk of ADHD symptoms in children
Association found between omega-6:omega-3 ratio in the umbilical cord and the appearance of ADHD symptoms The results of a study led by a team from...
Virtual reality could be used to treat autism
Playing games in virtual reality (VR) could be a key tool in treating people with neurological disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease. The...
The bigger the evolutionary jump, the more lethal cross-species diseases could be
Some diseases which are fatal in one species can cause only mild discomfort in another--but it's hard for scientists to predict how lethal a disease...
Cities under pressure
Cities to swelter as planners face unenviable trade-off between tackling climate change and quality of life, new research has shown. Cities to swelter as planners...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Low levels of public trust during violent conflict may have thwarted attempts to control Ebola
A quarter of people surveyed during active 2018 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo believed the virus was not real, and would not...
Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet
Credit: Illustration by Gabriel Perez Diaz, Instituto de AstrofÃsica de Canarias AMES, Iowa - Astronomers who study stars are providing a valuable assist to the...
Dramatic housing transformation in sub-Saharan Africa revealed for first time
Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living in slum conditions Using state-of-the-art...
Fulvestrant plus anastrozole extends lives of women with advanced HR+ breast cancer
Credit: UC Irvine Women with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer live longer when they receive a combination of two anti-estrogen drugs, fulvestrant and anastrozole, compared...
Gene transfer improves diabetes-linked heart ailment
Credit: Kevin Walsh Researchers with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego have shown that a gene transfer technique...
