How did web-based cognitive therapy work for insomnia?
How well did a web-based cognitive behavior therapy for insomnia intervention work in a randomized clinical trial? A new article published online by JAMA Psychiatry...
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Use of frailty screening initiative before surgery associated with reduced risk of death
In a study published online by JAMA Surgery, Daniel E. Hall, M.D., M.Div., M.H.Sc., of the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and University of Pittsburgh,...
Levels of total cholesterol, LDL-C, triglycerides continue to decline among US adults
In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, Asher Rosinger, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Md., and colleagues examined...
Researchers identify cause for lower-extremity overgrowths in obese patients
CHICAGO (November 30, 2016): Morbidly obese individuals--those whose weight is more than double normal weight--are prone to overgrowths in their lower extremities that can lead...
An agent used to treat psoriasis may be aimed at the wrong target
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München The antibody ustekinumab is being used successfully for the treatment of psoriasis since 2009. It inhibits the underlying inflammation by neutralizing...
€1.3m study could pave way for therapies to repair spinal cord
(University of Edinburgh) Brain scientists are using tropical fish to investigate how the spinal cord can be coaxed to repair itself after injury. The European...
Using ecosystem services in municipality planning: Lessons from Sweden
Credit: Palo et al. (2016) In the context of increasing land use and climate change, municipality planning faces a growing challenge finding a sustainable balance...
Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons, research finds
Credit: University of Leicester The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons - a mass of more than 50 kilos for every square metre...
Going against the grain — nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable!
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable! Nitrogen is everywhere: even in the air there is...
Even mildly excessive body iron stores increase the risk of type 2 diabetes
Even mildly elevated body iron contributes to the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes, according to research from the University of Eastern Finland. Excess...
Young cancer survivors have twice the risk of suicide
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen This is the result of a national cohort study by researcher and medical doctor Maria Winther Gunnes at the Department of...
Vital vaccine could ‘reduce burden’ of dengue disease in hardest-hit regions
The first licensed vaccine for the potentially life-threatening dengue virus should only be used in moderate-to high impacted regions, new research has predicted. A team...
Zika and glaucoma linked for first time in new study
New Haven, Conn. -- A team of researchers in Brazil and at the Yale School of Public Health has published the first report demonstrating that...
Peptides as tags in fluorescence microscopy
Credit: (Picture: Franziska Neubert & Soeren Doose) Fluorescence microscopy visualizes the molecular elements of cells. Proteins of nerve cells, for instance, can be labelled using...
Microbubbles and ultrasound open the blood-brain barrier to administer drugs
Credit: UEIL, C. Sierra et al. The impassable blood-brain barrier prevents microorganisms from entering our brain, however it also blocks medicines that could help treat...
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