Medically unnecessary ambulance rides soar after ACA expansion
By 2016, two years into the expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 17.6 million previously uninsured people around the U.S. had gained health insurance...
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New grant supports promising research in solar energy
UD's Ujjwal Das and collaborators work to improve photovoltage technologyCredit: Photo by Kathy F. Atkinson In their quest to improve our ability to capture and...
SpaceX launch puts UMass Lowell research into orbit
Instrument aboard DSX satellite to study 'killer electrons' LOWELL, Mass. - An Air Force satellite launched into orbit this week via SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket...
Utrafast magnetism: Electron-phonon interactions examined at BESSY II
Credit: HZB Interactions between electrons and phonons are regarded as the microscopic driving force behind ultrafast magnetization or demagnetization processes (spin-flips). However, it was not...
Prized postdoc works to demystify process behind quark combination
Theorist Andrea Signori wins the 2019 JSA Postdoctoral Prize for work to explain how quarks build particlesCredit: DOE's Jefferson Lab A goal of the Department...
Artificial DNA can control release of active ingredients from drugs
Credit: Ceren Kimna / TUM A drug with three active ingredients that are released in sequence at specific times: Thanks to the work of a...
Skoltech scientists found a way to control the electrical characteristics of optical memory devices
Organic electronics has been developing at a blistering pace over the last decade: flexible thin-film electronic circuits, sensors, displays, solar light converters and batteries, LEDs...
New method divides patients with ulcerative colitis in groups
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a way of using gene expression conserved across species to divide patients with the inflammatory bowel disease...
Medicines made of solid gold to help the immune system
By studying the effects of gold nanoparticles on the immune cells related to antibody production, researchers at UNIGE, at Swansea University and at the NCCR...
Influence of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine jumps 25%
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM)--the flagship publication of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)--has again been ranked among the top medical...
Students chowing down tuna in dining halls are unaware of mercury exposure risks
Survey reveals most college students are not aware that eating large amounts of tuna exposes them to neurotoxic mercury, and some are consuming more than...
Short sleep duration and sleep variability blunt weight loss
The results are from the Predimed-Plus study, and they have been obtained after monitoring for a year almost 2,000 patients suffering from overweight and the...
Botox cousin can reduce malaria in an environmentally friendly way
Credit: Geoffrey Masuyer/Stockholm University Researchers at the universities in Stockholm and Lund, in collaboration with researchers from the University of California, have found a new...
Tumour treating fields in glioblastoma: Indication of a benefit
Patients with a fatal brain tumour survive longer/New method is burdensome but does not seem to impair quality of life Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain...
Low-income, less educated women least likely to access infertility care
About 1 in 8 women report infertility in the US -- but women with higher incomes and education levels are significantly more likely to seek...
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