Footing the bill for a ‘silent’ sickness
The "silent burden" of foot disease afflicts one in ten hospital patients, costing taxpayers billions and filling nearly 5,000 hospital beds each night, according to...
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Congenital virus in children with cerebral palsy more common than thought
Cytomegalovirus is a common herpesvirus that can cross the placenta, infect the fetus and cause damage to the developing brain. The retrospective observational study of...
Hearing with your eyes — a Western style of speech perception
Credit: Dr. Kaoru Sekiyama Which parts of a person's face do you look at when you listen them speak? Lip movements affect the perception of...
Bisexual men and women face pay gap, Indiana University study finds
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Bisexual men and women are paid less for doing the same jobs than similarly qualified heterosexual men and women, according to Indiana...
AgriLife Research team makes strides in fight against Zika
COLLEGE STATION - There's a war raging on a tiny battlefield and the outcome could well touch millions of people worldwide threatened by Zika and...
Kaiser Permanente to examine role of environmental factors in childhood obesity
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 15, 2016 - Kaiser Permanente researchers have received a major new grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how exposures...
Less sensitive temperature regulation a key to hibernation-like torpor
Credit: RIKEN Some animals can enter a hibernation-like state called daily torpor that reduces the amount of energy needed to survive when food is unavailable....
New insights into cause of phantom limb pain may have therapeutic benefits
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Phantom limb pain is the pain experienced following loss of a limb, either from injury or amputation. This sensation...
Winter conception increases mothers’ diabetes risk
Research led by the University of Adelaide has found that women whose babies are conceived in winter are more likely to develop gestational diabetes during...
Wind and solar energy projects could bring 5,000 new jobs to rural Minnesota
Minnesota has undergone a remarkable transformation in its energy landscape over the past decade. Coal, once the dominant fuel source for Minnesota's electric utilities, has...
New way to make low-cost solar cell technology
Credit: Jack Fox, ANU. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new way to fabricate high efficiency semi-transparent perovskite solar cells in...
UH Cancer Center researcher finds new driver of an aggressive form of brain cancer
Credit: UHCancerCenter University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain...
Real men don’t say ‘cute’
Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016. What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others....
New study shows racial/ethnic variations in quitline reach among US smokers
Quitlines, hotlines that provide free cessation services for smokers, appear to be reaching minority populations that typically underutilize cessation treatments and have high smoking prevalence,...
New protein provides critical link between aging and age-dependent disease
The discovery of a novel protein that links aging and age-dependent retinal diseases could lead to potential new treatments for conditions that cause sight loss...
