Complete care improves patient outcomes Complete Care, a collaborative approach to meeting patient needs, is improving outcomes for Kaiser Permanente patients. Results from the program are featured in the November 2013 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality ...

A step towards early Alzheimer's diagnosis If Alzheimer's disease is to be treated in the future it requires an early diagnosis, which is not yet possible. Now researchers at higher education institutions such as Linköping University have identified ...

Advanced Open Access publishing model The Biodiversity Data Journal goes beyond the basics of the Gold Open Access There are two main modes of open access publishing – Green Open Access, where the author has the right to provide free access to the article outside the publisher's web ...

NASA sees heavy rain in Typhoon Francisco, now affecting southern Japanese islands On Oct. 22, 2013 Typhoon Francisco was already affecting the southern islands Japan when the TRMM satellite had a good view of its rainfall and cloud heights. On Oct. 23, as Typhoon ...

Stealth nanoparticles lower drug-resistant tumors' defenses Some of the most dangerous cancers are those that can outmaneuver the very drugs designed to defeat them, but researchers are now reporting a new Trojan-horse approach. In a preliminary study in ...

Study finds testosterone therapy may reduce risk of cardiovascular disease (Boston)—Research from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) suggests that testosterone treatment in hypogonadal (testosterone deficient) men restores normal lipid profiles ...

Vinyl flooring linked to potentially harmful substances at schools and daycare centers Large areas of vinyl flooring in daycares and schools appear to expose children to a group of compounds called phthalates, which have been linked to reproductive and developmental ...

Paper-based device could bring medical testing to remote locales In remote regions of the world where electricity is hard to come by and scientific instruments are even scarcer, conducting medical tests at a doctor's office or medical lab is rarely an option. ...

Managing the data deluge through new software Unprecedented torrents of data flood out of research labs on a continual basis, but making sense of it all remains a major scientific bottleneck. How software is evolving to transform this data deluge into knowledge ...

A young Picasso or Beethoven could be the next Edison Good news for parents: Those pricey piano lessons or random toy parts littering your floors may one day lead to the next scientific breakthrough. That's according to new Michigan State University ...

How will stem cell therapies impact patient care? 4 action items are key to success, says World Stem Cell Report 2013 New Rochelle, NY, October 23, 2013—The stem cell field is at a critical point, with the potential for a major impact on ...

Force to be reckoned with: NIST measures laser power with portable scale VIDEO: This is an animation of new laser power measurement technique. ...

NIST/JQI team 'gets the edge' on photon transport in silicon Scientists have a new way to edge around a difficult problem in quantum physics, now that a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University ...

New research illustrates Mississippi River's role New study establishes first-ever connections between the Mississippi River A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science showed that the complex ...

Geoscience Workforce Currents #81: Salaries and employment locations of recent geoscience graduates Alexandria, VA - Following the release of data about graduates from over 71 geoscience departments that took the National Geoscience Student Exit Survey, ...

The reins of Casimir: Engineered nanostructures could offer way to control quantum effect You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like ...

UAlberta medical researchers discover potential new treatment for colitis A drug currently on the market to treat leukemia reversed symptoms of colitis in lab tests, according to recently published findings by medical researchers ...

Older siblings' cells can be passed from female dogs to their puppies in the womb, MU researchers find Discovery will help further research into health effects of microchimerism COLUMBIA, Mo. – Some people possess a small number of cells in their bodies that ...

A simple test may catch early pancreatic cancer Currently, disease usually found too late to save lives Reporting on a small preliminary study, Johns Hopkins researchers say a simple blood test based on detection of tiny epigenetic alterations may reveal the earliest ...

CNIO researchers discover new genetic errors that could cause 1 of the most deadly leukaemias The sequencing of the acute dendritic cell leukaemia exome shows that more than half of patients display 'epigenetic' gene alterations Acute dendritic ...

Imaging breast cancer with light Netherlands researchers unveil their 'photoacoustic mammoscope,' a new device that could someday be used for routine breast cancer screenings ...

'Common courtesy' lacking among doctors-in-training Johns Hopkins researchers say 'etiquette-based' communications needed to improve medical outcomes Johns Hopkins investigators have found that doctors-in-training are unlikely to introduce themselves fully ...

Study finds prenatal diagnosis and birth location may significantly improve neonatal HLHS survival Multi-center study led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON – (Oct. 23, 2013) – A first-of-its-kind study led by Texas Children's ...

Neurotoxin effectively relieves bone cancer pain in dogs, Penn researchers find By the time bone cancer is diagnosed in a pet dog, it is often too late to save the animal's life. Instead, the goal of treatment is to keep the dog as comfortable and free ...

Gene-silencing strategy opens new path to understanding Down Syndrome Genome-wide changes result from silencing extra chromosome, scientists report at ASHG 2013 The first evidence that the underlying genetic defect responsible for trisomy 21, also known ...