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DALLAS, March 13, 2018 - Generic anti-platelet drugs seem to work as well as a brand name drug for heart patients, according to new research...

Researchers computationally find the needle in a haystack to treat rare diseases

Credit: Misagh Naderi, LSU One in 10 people in America is fighting a rare disease, or a disorder that affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. Although...

California mental health tax providing services to needy in L.A. County, study finds

Funding from California's special tax for mental health services has allowed Los Angeles County to reach the seriously mentally ill and those at risk for...

Technique developed to improve appendicitis care for pediatric patients

MINNEAPOLIS - Mar. 13, 2018 - Researchers from Children's Minnesota (Children's) and HealthPartners Institute have developed a new pediatric appendicitis risk calculator (pARC) to aid...

‘Digistain’ technology offers revolution in detailed cancer diagnosis

Credit: Imperial College London New cutting edge technology can be used to grade cancer tumours, eradicating human subjectivity and ensuring patients get the right treatment....

Moffitt researchers use single-cell imaging & math models to find effect drug properties

TAMPA, Fla. - Drug therapies that target a specific molecule have changed the way patients are treated for cancer and greatly improved survival rates. However,...

Toilet-to-tap: Gross to think about, but how does it taste?

RIVERSIDE, CA. - Here's a blind test taste like Pepsi never imagined. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently published a study of recycled...

Taking the jab (and the chill) out of vaccination

Scientists in Cairns (Australia) and Cardiff (Wales) have taken an important first step towards solving two problems that hinder access to vaccines: they need to...

Researchers issue first annual sea-level report cards

Credit: © D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards" to monitor and forecast changes...

How the color-changing hogfish ‘sees’ with its skin

Credit: Dean Kimberly and Lori Schweikert DURHAM, N.C. -- Some animals are quick-change artists. Take the hogfish, a pointy-snouted reef fish that can go from...

More homes built near wild lands leading to greater wildfire risk

Credit: UW-Madison MADISON - More than 10 million acres burned across the country during the 2017 U.S. wildfire season at a cost of more than...

Crisis or self-correction: Rethinking how the media cover science

One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is "broken" or "in crisis." In the mainstream press, some...

Female researchers publish childcare recommendations for conference organizers

Many women in science are raising concerns over the fact that parents with young children are often excluded from fully participating in academic conference activities....

A new cross-coupling simplifies the synthesis of drug-like molecules

LA JOLLA, CA - March 12, 2018 - Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have designed a new molecule-building method that uses sulfones as...

Elephant declines imperil Africa’s forests