Lifelong physical activity increases bone density in men
IMAGE: Pam Hinton found that exercise-associated bone loading during adolescence and young adulthood benefited bone density in adulthood. Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. –...
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Farming, cheese, chewing changed human skull shape
Credit: David Katz and Tim Weaver, UC Davis The advent of farming, especially dairy products, had a small but significant effect on the shape of...
Illinois-Mayo Clinic team develop method to identify seizure-causing regions in the brain
Credit: Mayo Clinic Epilepsy–a condition that affects an estimated 65 million people worldwide–can be a difficult condition to treat. A team at the University of...
New treatment on the horizon for type 1 diabetes sufferers
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research Patients suffering from type 1 diabetes may soon have access to improved approaches to treat the disease, courtesy of...
Fever in early pregnancy linked to birth defects, animal study shows
Credit: Liu, et al. Fevers in a mother's first trimester of pregnancy increase the baby's risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as...
Adrenaline rush: Delaying epinephrine shots after cardiac arrest cuts survival rates
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 1, 2016 -Hospitals in which the administration of epinephrine to patients whose hearts have stopped is delayed...
Amputees can learn to control a robotic arm with their minds
Credit: Nicho Hatsopoulos, Karthikeyan Balasubramanian A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago shows how amputees can learn to control a robotic arm...
Cellular quality control process could be Huntington’s disease drug target
Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. — The loss of motor function and mental acuity associated with Huntington's disease might be treatable by...
Fatty liver diagnosis improved with magnetic resonance
Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Taking tissue samples from the liver to diagnose fatty liver can be replaced in most cases by a painless magnetic resonance...
Men should avoid rock music when playing board games, say scientists
Credit: Imperial College London / Royal College of Music Men should avoid rock music when playing board games, say scientists Mozart may enhance a man's...
Tactile feedback adds ‘muscle sense’ to prosthetic hand
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University Engineers working to add "muscle sense" to prosthetic limbs found that tactile feedback on the skin allowed blindfolded test subjects to...
Low-salt & heart-healthy dash diet as effective as drugs for some adults with high…
A study of more than 400 adults with prehypertension, or stage 1 high blood pressure, found that combining a low-salt diet with the heart-healthy DASH...
Tufts microbiologist Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Ph.D., named Pew Latin American Fellow
BOSTON (June 9, 2016) — Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Ph.D., has been selected as one of ten Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences by The...
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Few experiences invoke as much anxiety as a call from your doctor saying “you need to come back for more tests.” Your imagination goes wild...
UH professor wins bronze for research of rare neurological disorder
HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2015 – Michihisa Umetani, assistant professor of biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston's Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling,...
