Cautious prawns win battle for food
Credit: Callum Duffield / Daniel Maskrey Prawns have personalities - and cautious crustaceans do better in the battle for food, new research shows. Scientists from...
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UA study links sleep loss with nighttime snacking, junk food cravings, obesity, diabetes
TUCSON, Ariz. - Nighttime snacking and junk food cravings may contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors and represent a potential link between poor sleep and obesity,...
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center scientists to present at ASCO Annual Meeting
(CHICAGO) -- Scientists from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health will be presenting research and leading discussions on various topics, including metastatic...
How just drops of viper venom pack a deadly punch
Credit: Leandro Avelar A bite from a lancehead snake can be fatal. Species in the family, found throughout Central and South America, have venom that...
Weight changes associated with reduced bone strength
BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, Boston University, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and University of Calgary have found evidence that...
Analysis: Survival benefit for African-Americans with advanced prostate cancer
DURHAM, N.C. -- Contrary to current perceptions, certain African-American men with advanced prostate cancer have as good a chance of survival as white men and...
Black patients show stronger response to hormone therapy for prostate cancer
DURHAM, N.C. -- African-American men with advanced prostate cancer might be more responsive than white men to an anti-androgen drug and steroids, according to a...
SNIS establishes partnership to develop quality measures to improve stroke outcomes
Fairfax, Va. - The Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery (SNIS) has assembled a powerful collaboration with key stakeholder groups to develop quality measures for stroke treatment....
When doctors assume, patients lose
PHILADELPHIA - Collecting sexual orientation and gender identity, or "SO/GI," data has valuable public health benefits and potential clinical benefits for an individual patient, but...
Breakthrough in controlling DNA-based robots
COLUMBUS, Ohio--Researchers have devised a magnetic control system to make tiny DNA-based robots move on demand--and much faster than recently possible. In the journal Nature...
Despite fewer looking for work, gains continue for Americans with disabilities
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - June 1, 2018. Job gains continued for Americans with disabilities in May, although fewer were looking for work,...
Penn Medicine Neuroscientist receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award
PHILADELPHIA-- Shinjae Chung, PhD, an assistant professor of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named a recipient...
Finances are a major motivating factor in patient avoidance of diagnostic testing
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM. DES PLAINES, IL--Patient preferences for diagnostic testing differed significantly across levels of..
Study reveals brain activity patterns underlying fluent speech
When we speak, we engage nearly 100 muscles, continuously moving our lips, jaw, tongue, and throat to shape our breath into the fluent sequences of...
Most hospitals now require workers to get flu shots — except those that treat veterans
ANN ARBOR, MI - In just a few short months, hospitals across the country will start their annual push to make sure their workers get...
