Trouble hearing? It could increase your risk of an injury
Boston, MA-- Accidental injuries are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated...
NEWS INDEX
Obesity surgery prevents severe chronic kidney disease and kidney failure
Credit: Malin Arnesson Patients that underwent weight-loss surgery ran a significantly lower risk of developing severe chronic kidney disease and kidney failure, when compared to...
Indian rural women late in seeking breast cancer care
Credit: Bharat Patil Women in rural India are waiting long before seeking medical care for breast cancer. Most of the Indian women do not know...
North and south cooperation to combat tuberculosis
Credit: UZH Tuberculosis can be cured and could be eradicated. For this to happen, however, patients have to receive the right treatment. Researchers at the...
Health check can spot psychologically vulnerable persons
If mental health was made part of a health check, then it would be possible to detect vulnerable people who have not received assistance from...
Shaking up newborn ambulance transportation for a brighter future
Credit: University of Nottingham The multidisciplinary team led by Professor Donal McNally, Professor of Bioengineering and Head of the Bioengineering Research Group, along with researchers...
Signalling study sheds light on conditions from alopecia to cancer
Researchers from the University of Dundee and the Francis Crick Institute have made a significant discovery about a cellular pathway associated with developmental defects and...
Novel genomics tool enables more accurate identification of rare mutations in cancer cells
Credit: New York Genome Center NEW YORK, NY (March 22, 2018) -- A new computational method developed by researchers at the New York Genome Center...
New study highlights unique state of ‘restful alertness’ during transcendental meditation
Credit: Maharishi University of Management The Transcendental Meditation technique is said to lead to a state of "restful alertness," and now a new study in...
Keystone Symposia and Volkswagen Foundation begin scientific conference series in Hannover, Germany
SILVERTHORNE, COLORADO, USA - March 22, 2018 - Keystone Symposia, in partnership with the Volkswagen Foundation, is pleased to announce a series of scientific research...
Laser-based system offers continuous monitoring of leaks from oil and gas operations
Credit: Sean Coburn, University of Colorado in Boulder WASHINGTON -- Researchers have conducted the first field tests for a new laser-based system that can pinpoint...
Mobile ‘dual-comb’ device significantly improves methane leak detection
Credit: Stephanie Sizemore and Ian Coddington/NIST Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source...
Salivaomics: Saliva extracellular RNA (exRNA) and saliva proteome Wiki
Alexandria, VA, USA - The 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 42nd Annual Meeting of...
Plants really do feed their friends
Credit: Heejung Cho Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they...
Oral microbiome and anthropometry changes following caries arrest using silver-nitrate/fluoride-varnish
Alexandria, VA, USA - At the 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 42nd Annual Meeting...
