ASH announces 2017 Scholar Award recipients
(WASHINGTON, November 23, 2016) - The American Society of Hematology (ASH) today announced the recipients of its 2017 Scholar Awards. One of ASH's most prestigious...
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Study suggests home-based telemental health delivers better quality of life for veterans
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Home-based telemental health for depression is well received by patients and delivers as good a quality of life as...
How to protect your laptop — even when it’s asleep
Montreal, November 23, 2016 -- In the age of WikiLeaks, Russian hacks and increased government surveillance, many computer users are feeling increasingly worried about how...
Researchers run largest known transparent checkpointing process
A team of researchers led by Jiajun Cao, a PhD candidate in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University, recently completed...
Ames Laboratory scientists create first intermetallic double salt with platinum
Credit: Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are being credited with creating the first intermetallic double...
New Neiman Institute study evaluates national trends in enteral access procedures
Reston, VA - According to a new study by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, the last two decades have seen a substantial decline...
Suicide rates drop among members of White Mountain Apache tribe
Deaths by suicide among the White Mountain Apache in Arizona dropped by nearly 40 percent between 2006 and 2012 compared to the previous six-year period,...
Aviation enhancements, better biosensors could result from new sensor technology
Credit: Ryan Owens, MU College of Engineering COLUMBIA, Mo. - Piezoelectric sensors measure changes in pressure, acceleration, temperature, strain or force and are used in...
TGen awarded $200,000 by NVIDIA Foundation to accelerate its technology
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Nov. 23, 2016 -- Faster and more precise information about how best to treat cancer patients should be possible thanks to a...
Future PM2.5 air pollution over China
Credit: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy Sciences With rapid industrialization and urbanization over the past decades, China has experienced widespread air pollution induced by...
Study shows low-dose chemotherapy regimens could prevent tumor recurrence in some cancers
Credit: Chan et al., 2016 Conventional, high-dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors' recurrence in...
Climate model predictions are telling a consistent story
Three independent methods of modelling climate change impact on yield display the same bleak tendency: When global temperature increases, wheat yield will decline. This is...
Compounds produced by phytopathogenic microbes encourage plant growth
A broad range of microorganisms, including phytopathogenic fungi and bacteria, are capable of producing volatile compounds that encourage plant growth, flowering and the accumulation of...
Grow more crops at the same time
When you are in the supermarket contemplating which vegetables to buy, nitrogen is hardly the first thing on your mind. However, the products on the...
Incoming Regenstrief Institute president Embi named chair-elect of AMIA board of directors
Credit: Ohio State University INDIANAPOLIS -- Peter J. Embi, MD, MS, who joins the Regenstrief Institute as president and CEO on December 15, has been...
