Living longer in poor neighborhoods, tied to higher risk of not gaining healthy pregnancy weight
The longer a woman spends living in a neighborhood low on the socio-economic scale, the more likely she is to not gain enough weight during...
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Human Vaccines Project and Seqirus partner to advance universal flu vaccine research
NEW YORK AND MAIDENHEAD, UK, JUNE 28, 2018 - The Human Vaccines Project, a nonprofit public-private partnership focused on decoding the immune system to improve...
Gaming or gambling? Online transactions blur boundaries
In-game purchasing systems, such as 'loot boxes', in popular online games resemble gambling and may pose financial risks for vulnerable players, according to gambling psychology...
IDSA/ASM lab diagnosis guide helps health care providers
ARLINGTON, Va. - Advances in rapid molecular testing mean infectious diseases can be accurately diagnosed in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks and...
Educational interventions decrease sunburns among heavy equipment operators
Bottom Line: Implementation of educational interventions among operating engineers (heavy equipment operators) in Michigan significantly increased the use of sunscreen and decreased the number of...
Handwashing and house cleaning may protect against unhealthy chemicals
Washing your hands and cleaning your house frequently may help to lower your contact with common flame-retardant chemicals, according to a new study by researchers...
Men with aggressive prostate cancer may get new powerful drug option
Study targets men whose cancers stopped responding to hormone therapy Men taking the drug enzalutamide had delayed cancer re-appearance of almost two years Men taking...
Summer dead zones in Chesapeake Bay breaking up earlier
SOLOMONS, MD (June 27, 2018)--A new study shows that dead zones in the lower Chesapeake Bay are beginning to break up earlier in the fall,...
Breast cancer studies ignore race, socioeconomic factors
The Bloomberg School scientists, in a commentary that appears in the July issue of Cancer Causes & Control, point to evidence that social factors help...
Sounds of moving objects change perceptions of body size
Sound and object motion can be used to change perceptions about body size, according to a new study by an international team involving UCL researchers....
US, South American paleontologists ID two new Miocene mammals in Bolivia
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski CLEVELAND, Ohio--Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils of a pair of new species...
ASHS Annual Conference presents issues surrounding the future of water scarcity
When the American Society for Horticultural Science convenes its annual conference this summer, crucial issues take center stage. Within various sessions starting on July 31,...
OU research team identify genetic structure of Painted Bunting
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma researcher, Andrea Contina, and his team have identified the genetic structure of the Painted Bunting, a neotropical...
Surströmming: The secrets of this stinky Swedish fish (video)
(American Chemical Society) It has been called the smelliest food in the world. But surströmming -- Swedish for 'sour herring' -- is beloved in Sweden...
New scientific and patient-focused conference on treatments for taste and smell disorders
PHILADELPHIA (June 27, 2018) - The Monell Center, in partnership with the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste and the Rocky Mountain Taste...
