A lure at both ends — Puff adders leave nothing to chance.
Credit: Wits University The Puff Adder (Bitis arietans) is one of Africa's deadliest snake species, not only due to its deadly venom, but also because...
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Changing habits to improve health: New study indicates behavior…
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Improving your heart health may be as simple as making small behavioral changes – a new study of behavioral health interventions suggests...
What happens when patients access their mental health providers’ notes?
Credit: Michael Moody Thanks to electronic health records and online portals, more and more patients are being given access to the notes their clinicians write...
Prebiotics in infant formula could improve learning and memory and…
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. – Nearly every American who has become a parent in the last decade has heard the...
UTA researcher’s book looks at quality-of-life concerns…
Credit: UT Arlington A new book, co-authored by a UTA researcher, empirically shows how badly sprawl affects health and other quality-of-life outcomes. The Costs of...
Researchers identify cells linked to the development of the…
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System A population of cells in early development may give rise to the ventricular chambers of the heart, but not the...
Scientists find heightened attention to surprise in veterans with PTSD
Credit: Davide Bonazzi Fireworks on nights other than the fourth of July or New Year's Eve might be nothing more than inconsiderate neighbors, but for...
UTHealth study paves the way for Clostridium difficile treatment in…
Credit: Terry Vine HOUSTON – (March 13, 2017) – Frozen and freeze-dried products for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) are nearly as effective as fresh product...
Treatment of pregnant patients with bone and joint injuries complicated, requires team of…
Credit: © American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons ROSEMONT, Ill. (May 1, 2017)–Nearly one in 1,000 pregnant women in the United States suffer bone and joint...
Which research results in mice will help humans with MS? Now there’s a way to tell
Credit: Jessie J. Polanco BUFFALO, N.Y. — People with multiple sclerosis (MS) know all too well the frustration of hearing that success in treating the...
Onion-like layers help this efficient new nanoparticle glow
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A new, onion-like nanoparticle could open new frontiers in biomaging, solar energy harvesting and light-based security techniques. The particle's innovation lies in...
Potential diabetes treatment advances
Researchers at MIT’s David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, in collaboration with scientists at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and several other...
Renal function impairment in patients undergoing elective EVAR vs. elective open repair
Credit: Konstantinos Spanos et al , Bentham Science Publishers Endovascular (EVAR) or open surgical (OSR) repair are current treatment options for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)....
The first crowdfunded study in Japan: Micro X-ray observation of a…
Credit: Masanori Okanishi Not only have scientists from Japan performed the first non-destructive morphological observations on the Fleshy brittle star, Asteronyx loveni, using micro X-ray...
Agricultural fungicide attracts honey bees, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When given the choice, honey bee foragers prefer to collect sugar syrup laced with the fungicide...
