Land use and pollution shift female-to-male ratios in snapping turtles
Credit: Bill Hopkins Most of us know that our biological sex is decided by the pairing of X and Y chromosomes during conception. However, for...
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Surgery recovery program slashes opioid use, benefits patients, cuts costs, study finds
Credit: UVA Health System A special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients developed and implemented at the University of Virginia Health System is getting patients...
Future wearable device could tell how we power human movement
Credit: Renee Meiller/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- For athletes and weekend warriors alike, returning from a tendon injury too soon often ensures a trip right back...
Use of 2 anti-clotting medications following bypass surgery improves outcomes for grafted veins
Bottom Line: Taking aspirin plus an anti-clotting medication for one year after heart bypass surgery resulted in less narrowing of the vein used to bypass...
Effect of a home-based exercise program with wearable activity monitor, telephone coaching on walking endurance for peripheral artery disease
Bottom Line: A home-based exercise program that consisted of a wearable activity monitor and telephone coaching to promote walking by patients with peripheral artery disease...
Reconstructing what makes us tick
Credit: Roland S. Zimmermann WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 -- Cardiac arrhythmia results when the usual symphony of electric pulses that keep the heart's muscles...
Natural barcodes enable better cell tracking
Each of us carries in our genomes about 10 million genetic variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which represent a difference of just one letter...
Five ways to help cancer patients avoid the emergency room
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations are debilitating for patients with cancer and far too common - and costly -...
Heart disease may only be a matter of time for those with healthy obesity
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - April 24, 2018 - People who are 30 pounds or more overweight may want to slim down a bit even if they...
Significant advances detected in knowledge about renal cancer
Credit: Ed Uthman Cell, the most prestigious international journal in the field of biology, is today publishing a set of three papers on renal cancer....
Aging: The natural stress reliever for many women
ANN ARBOR -- While some research suggests that midlife is a dissatisfying time for women, other studies show that women report feeling less stressed and...
What if you could know that your mild cognitive impairment wouldn’t progress
(IOS Press) Researchers from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon found that, in some mild cognitive impairment patients, real neuropsychological stability over a...
Technology used to map Mars now measuring effect of treatment on tumors
Credit: Paul Tar A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed at The University of Manchester,...
Commonly prescribed heartburn drug linked to pneumonia in older adults
Researchers at the University of Exeter have found a statistical link between pneumonia in older people and a group of medicines commonly used to neutralise...
Music lessens pain and anxiety in patients undergoing surgery
Music can reduce the anxiety and pain of invasive surgery, according to an analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials published since 1980. Ninety-two trials...
