Inequality and social exclusion drive mental health problems in northern India
Credit: Lena Mustonen/Umeå University A survey of nearly 1000 households in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand showed that six percent of adults were identified...
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Link found between epilepsy drugs and birth defects
A joint study conducted by researchers from the universities of Liverpool and Manchester has found a link between birth defects and certain types of epilepsy...
Metamaterials open up entirely new possibilities in optics
Credit: Mia Halleröd Palmgren Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method that enables them to manipulate light to follow any predetermined path...
Squeezed states of light can improve feedback cooling significantly
Credit: Kristian Rasmussen, DTU How does the tightrope walker manage to maintain her balance and avoid that fatal drop from the sky? She carefully senses...
Climate change affects Swedish reindeer herding and increases tularemia
(Umea University) In northern Sweden, data from certain weather stations have shown that the snow season has been shortened by over two months in the...
A new technique of antibiotic efficiency testing developed
Credit: Ilya Osterman Scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with colleagues have worked out a safe, not that expensive and highly efficient...
Bad timing is depressing: Disrupting the brain’s internal clock causes depressive-like behavior in mice
Philadelphia, PA, November 29, 2016 - Disruptions of daily rhythms of the body's master internal clock cause depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in mice, reports a...
New insight into why leukaemia drug is successful
Researchers at the University of Southampton have shed new light on why and how a new class of drug is effective at fighting off leukaemia....
Use of prescription analgesics differs significantly between persons with and without Alzheimer’s
Approximately one third of persons with Alzheimer's disease use prescription medicines for pain after their diagnosis, reports a recent study conducted at the University of...
Using drugs for different diseases than initially intended for
Credit: University of Southern Denmark One drug, one disease. This is how we traditionally think about pharmaceutical drugs, but many of them are actually effective...
Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment
Credit: No credit supplied. Australian researchers have discovered remarkable evolutionary changes to insulin regulation in two of the nation's most iconic native animal species -...
Enzyme research provides a new picture of depression
Despite the fact that more than four percent of the world's population suffer from depression, and even though approximately 1,500 individuals commit suicide each year...
1 in 7 people living with HIV in the EU/EEA are not aware of their HIV status
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. With 29 747 newly reported HIV infections in 2015, the EU/EEA notification rate is similar to...
The good, the bad and the spliceosome!
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Fas protein can either inhibit or promote the controlled cell death (apoptosis), depending on...
Komodo dragons help researchers understand microbial health in captive animals
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Humans and Komodo dragons, the largest lizards in the world, could not be more different. In the wild, these four-legged carnivores...
