‘Triggers’: A new tool to assess cancer patients’…
Dr Jayne Wood from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 – A new tool to identify patients who would benefit from...
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Have a dental emergency? Your smartphone may soon be able to help you…
Credit: Corey Stein INDIANAPOLIS — Have a dental emergency? Your smartphone may be able to help you avoid an unnecessary trip to the hospital. A...
Interstate Batteries to begin selling OEM batteries for defibrillators
IMAGE: Interstate Batteries logo is shown. Credit: Interstate Batteries DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2016 — Today, Interstate Batteries announced a partnership with Physio-Control to provide original...
The heart-brain connection: The link between LQTS and seizures
Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center recently discovered a genetic link between Long QT Syndrome (LQTS), a rare cardiac rhythm disease, and an...
A new roundworm species from India is a link between 2 genera
The unique features and blending characters of a new roundworm species, discovered in India, make the nematode a distinct yet intermediary or connecting link between...
Do dogs of all ages respond equally to dog-directed speech?
Credit: Danielle Allen People tend to talk to dogs as though they are human babies. A new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B...
Orexin as a potential drug for treating septic shock
Credit: University of Tsukuba Sepsis is a life-threatening condition due to excessive immune responses to infection that damages the patient's own tissues and organs. In...
UCLA neuroscientists improve human memory by electrically stimulating…
Neuroscientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain to enhance people’s...
Gulf Stream slowdown to spare Europe from worst of climate change
Europe will be spared the worst economic impacts of climate change by a slowing down of the Gulf Stream, new research predicts. Scientists have long...
Penn study describes a better animal model to improve HIV vaccine…
PHILADELPHIA – Vaccines are usually medicine's best defense against the world's deadliest microbes. However, HIV is so mutable that it has so far effectively evaded...
New areas of the brain identified where ALS gene is active
For the first time novel expression sites in the brain have been identified for a gene which is associated with Motor Neuron Disease and Frontotemporal...
Penn study on super-silenced DNA hints at new ways to reprogram cells
Credit: The laboratory of Ken Zaret, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – Newly described stretches of super-silenced DNA reveal a fresh...
New study supports link between Omega-3 supplementation and reduction…
According to the World Health Organization, depression is a major cause of disease burden worldwide, affecting an estimated 350 million people. According to the National...
Male bees have more than a one-track mind
Male bumblebees are just as smart as female worker bees despite their dim-witted reputation, according to new research from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)....
Invention solving worldwide sewage woes, producing clean water, power and food
Credit: Daniel Yeh, PhD, College of Engineering, University of South Florida Rapid, unplanned urbanization is becoming a serious threat across the world, as it puts...
