Faith-based approach to changing lifestyle lowers blood pressure
DALLAS, Oct. 9, 2018 - A church-based program to encourage a healthy lifestyle lowered systolic blood pressure more than an educational program alone delivered in...
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Scoliosis linked to essential mineral
Credit: Gabriel Haller Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis,...
Asthma may contribute to childhood obesity epidemic
Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children, according to an international study led by USC scientists. The finding is a turnabout for...
Evidence does not support statin use for conditions other than heart disease
Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal...
Dryer, less predictable environment may have spurred human evolution
Credit: Robin Renaut A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable wetter episodes may have precipitated the transition from our hominin ancestors to anatomically modern humans,...
High-res data offer most detailed look yet at trawl fishing footprint around the world
Credit: University of Washington About a quarter of the world's seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a...
Genes responsible for difference in flower color of snapdragons identified
Credit: David Field Snapdragons are charming tall plants, and flower in a range of bright colors. In Spain, where snapdragons grow wild, these flower colors...
Study shows land-locked Atlantic salmon also use magnetic field to navigate
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study shows that Atlantic salmon use the Earth's magnetic field as a navigational tool - much like their cousins, Pacific...
Previously unknown genetic aberrations found to be associated with Alzheimer’s progression
In a large-scale analysis of RNA from postmortem human brain tissue, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Columbia University have...
Expanding fungal diversity, one cell at a time
They can be found on forest floors, swamps and in houses, ranging in size from smaller than the period on your smartphone's keyboard to stretching...
Getting a grip on the slow but unique evolution of sharks
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan, in collaboration with other Japanese institutes and aquariums, have decoded the whole genomes...
When yesterday’s agriculture feeds today’s water pollution
A study led by researchers at Université de Montréal quantifies for the first time the maximum amount of nutrients - specifically, phosphorus - that can...
Big discoveries about tiny particles
Credit: Illustration courtesy of Hojin Kim From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are...
Novel technology enables detection of early-stage lung cancer when surgical cure still is possible
Credit: Fang Wei, EZLife Bio Philadelphia, October 8, 2018 - Non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is often fatal because most cases are not diagnosed until they...
Carbon emissions from Amazonian forest fires up to 4 times worse than feared
Carbon losses caused by El Niño forest fires of 2015 and 2016 could be up to four times greater than thought, according to a study...
