Sleep apnea and insomnia combination linked with depression
A new study found that men with sleep apnoea and insomnia have a higher prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms than men with sleep apnoea...
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Many rape victims experience involuntary paralysis that prevents them from resisting
Active resistance is often considered to be the "normal" reaction during rape, but a new study found that most victims may experience a state of...
Higher alcohol consumption leads to greater loss of muscle tissue in postmenopausal women
CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 7, 2017)--If you feel as though you can't do as much physically as you've gotten older, there may be a reason. Both...
Precision therapy enasidenib effective in treating deadly form of leukemia
(WASHINGTON, June 6, 2017) -- Some patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer for which there are few treatments,...
Computer-aided imaging technique could reduce risk of second breast cancer surgery
Credit: Sunhua Wan, Hsiang-Chieh Lee, Xiaolei Huang, Ting Xu, Tao Xu, Xianxu Zeng, Zhan Zhang, Yuri Sheikine, James L. Connolly, James G. Fujimoto, Chao Zhou...
Starving prostate cancer with what you eat for dinner
Credit: Steven Jackson When you dine on curry and baked apples, enjoy the fact that you are eating something that could play a role starving...
Gut bacteria could protect cancer patients and pregnant women from Listeria, study suggests
Credit: Becattini et al., 2017 Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have discovered that bacteria living in the gut provide a...
Dogs help in breast carcinoma research
Credit: Michelle Aimée Oesch, University of Zurich Cancer is one of the most frequent diseases not only in people, but in pets as well. Like...
The complete epigenomes of the most frequent tumors, unveiled
Credit: IDIBELL A research team from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has managed to characterize the complete epigenomes of the most frequent tumors, including...
What makes a reach movement effortful?
Credit: Thomas Steuer/ Pierre Morel When choosing between alternative actions, we have to compare the positive outcomes of those actions and weigh them against their...
Brain State Technologies: Successful clinical trial shows reduction of insomnia symptoms
This figure shows brain electrical activity at the temporal lobes before and after HIRREM® sessions. Brain State Technologies: Successful Clinical Trial Shows Reduction of Insomnia...
NIST upgrades widely used database of molecular ‘fingerprints’
Credit: NIST When scientists need to identify an unknown compound, they do what a police detective might do. They get fingerprints -- in this case,...
Hiding in plain sight: New species of flying squirrel discovered
Credit: Nick Kerhoulas. For hundreds of years, a species of flying squirrel was hiding right under (actually, above) our noses. A new study published May...
Guts to glory?
Herbivore gut fungi hold a lot of promise. Just ask Michelle O'Malley. "Most of what we do that resonates with the public is to get...
New pediatric protocol reduces missed sepsis diagnoses by 76 percent
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON -- An electronic sepsis alert using a combination of vital signs, risk factors and physician judgment to identify...
