BfR and BVL simulate food crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The workshop is being jointly organised by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)...
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When boy fish build castles to impress girls, boy genes get ‘turned on’ and ‘tuned in’
Credit: Stanford University / York, Fernald Call it instinct, but something compels some animals to behave in certain ways, perhaps programs in their genes. Researchers...
If your diet fails, try again; your heart will thank you
Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood During the holiday season, it can be difficult for even the most determined of us to stick to a healthy...
Georgetown University Medical Center selects Nora Volkow for Highest Honor
Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) WASHINGTON (November 13, 2018) -- Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) will present Nora Volkow, MD, director of the...
Pain can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Credit: CU Boulder Expect a shot to hurt and it probably will, even if the needle poke isn't really so painful. Brace for a second...
AFAR 2018 Scientific Awards of Distinction
Boston, MA - The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), a national non-profit organization whose mission is to support and advance healthy aging through biomedical...
Affordable health care means better access to diabetes prevention, management
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 100 million Americans are either living with diabetes or have higher than average blood...
How can hospitals keep doctors positively engaged with their work?
November 13, 2018 - Individual and work-related factors may be helpful in promoting positive engagement with work among hospital physicians, according to a study in...
NIH scientists illuminate causes of hepatitis b virus-associated acute liver failure
Credit: NIAID WHAT: National Institutes of Health scientists and their collaborators found that hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated acute liver failure (ALF)--a rare condition that can...
Stealth-cap technology for light-emitting nanoparticles
Credit: HZDR/Sahneweiss/istockphoto.com/Thomas-Soellner/Molekuul A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University ..
Study examines opioid use among Massachusetts adolescents, trends in opioid prescriptions
Opioid-related overdoses and deaths remain a major public health concern in Massachusetts, yet adolescents who experience opioid-related nonfatal overdose (NFOD) have been rarely studied. Using...
Weightlifting is good for your heart and it doesn’t take much
Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or...
UMass Amherst team works with Alaska native villages for suicide prevention
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - As the nights grow longer and winter settles in across the north, a team of health researchers is using...
Infectious diseases experts convene to explore lifesaving antibiotic research methods
BALTIMORE (November 13, 2018) - Healthcare professionals nationwide are gathering this week to discuss how to improve programs to better control antibiotic use in healthcare...
Blocking ‘secondary cataracts’
Credit: Photo by Evan Krape Today's cataract surgery is often described as a marvel of modern medicine, a one-hour outpatient procedure that has spared millions...
