Blood pressure medicine may improve conversational skills of…
IMAGE: University of Missouri researchers have found that a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats may have the potential to...
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After decades of clean up attempts, world’s lakes still suffer from phosphorus…
Leading scientists warn: Phosphorus pollution is a major concern. We need to speed up recovery treatments of lakes – or accept poor freshwater quality. In...
Satellites, airport visibility readings shed light on troops’ exposure to air pollution
Credit: NASA Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an approach used to study air...
Children’s sleep quality is related to mothers’ insomnia…
Children more often sleep poorly if their mothers suffer from insomnia symptoms. This report researchers from the University of Basel and the University of Warwick...
Does payer type — commercial insurance or Medicare —…
Credit: The Dartmouth Institute In a first-of-its-kind national study, researchers from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice examined the connection between payer...
The story of the Elephant Man re-told in an immersive Whitechapel audio tour app
Credit: Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum The story of Joseph Merrick, the so-called 'Elephant Man', takes centre stage in a new audio tour of...
More genes turned on when plants compete
Credit: Courtesy of Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. – Some people travel to northern California for wine. However, Maren Friesen, Michigan State University plant...
Gene therapy for rare bleeding disorder achieves proof-of-concept
IMAGE: Paris Margaritis, D. Phil., is a hematology researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Credit: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Hematology researchers have used...
Physician fine-tuning mouse model for rare condition in which HPV…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 25, 2016) – Infection with the common human papillomavirus can result in a rare condition that can leave children...
University of Louisville lab helps discover new disease that causes…
Credit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Researchers at the University of Louisville were part of a group that discovered an insidious new autoimmune disease...
Vision symptoms following concussion limit a child’s ability to return to the…
Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A comprehensive vision assessment should be part of return-to-learn protocols to help determine when children are ready to return...
Tufts University nutrition scientists provide updated MyPlate for…
BOSTON (March 7, 2016)–Nutrition scientists at the Jean Mayer U. S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University...
Rice University lab runs crowd-sourced competition to create…
Big data has a bright future in personalized medicine, as demonstrated by an international competition centered at Rice University that suggested ways forward for treatment...
Tracking deer by NASA satellite
Credit: Credits: US National Park Service Mule deer mothers are in sync with their environment, with reproduction patterns that closely match the cycles of plant...
Tulane University awarded $12 million to create Lassa vaccine and…
Credit: (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University more than $12 million to test a promising drug treatment against...
