Pre-term infants with severe retinopathy more likely to have non-visual disabilities
2014-02-05
In a group of very low-birth-weight infants, severe retinopathy of prematurity was associated with nonvisual disabilities at age 5 years, according to a study in the February ...
Do you have a sweet tooth? Honeybees have a sweet claw
2014-02-05
New research on the ability of honeybees to taste with claws on their forelegs reveals details on how this information is processed, according to a study published in the open-access journal, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Insects ...
Clearer labels needed on drugs containing animal products
2014-02-05
Dr Kinesh Patel and Dr Kate Tatham say most medications prescribed in primary care contain animal derived products and it ...
Is institutional racism happening in our hospitals?
2014-02-05
Dr Nadeem Moghal, from George Eliot Hospital in Warwickshire, draws on the Macpherson report (the police ...
Time to act on mobile phone use while driving, say experts
2014-02-05
Charles and Barry Pless argue that, with a quarter of crashes in the United States now attributed to mobile phone use, "we can't wait for perfect evidence before ...
Largest evolutionary study of sponges sheds new light on animal evolution
2014-02-05
Sponges are an important animal for marine and freshwater ecology and represent a rich animal diversity ...
Orca's survival during the Ice Age
2014-02-05
In the ocean, the killer whale rules as a top predator, feeding on everything from seals to sharks. Being at the apex of the food chain, ...
How your memory rewrites the past
2014-02-05
CHICAGO --- Your memory is a wily time traveler, plucking fragments of the present and inserting them into the past, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® ...
Mediterranean diet linked with lower risk of heart disease among young US workers
2014-02-05
Boston, MA -- Among a large group of Midwestern firefighters, greater adherence to Mediterranean-style diet was associated with lower risk factors for cardiovascular disease ...
Heart disease warning at age 18
2014-02-05
CHICAGO – –Elevated blood pressure as young as age 18 is a warning sign of cardiovascular disease developing later in life and the time ...
MRIs help predict which atrial fibrillation patients will benefit from catheter ablation
2014-02-05
MAYWOOD, Il. – A new type of contrast MRI can predict which heart patients with atrial fibrillation are most likely to benefit from ...
Sucker-footed fossils broaden the bat map
2014-02-05
DURHAM, N.C. -- Today, Madagascar sucker-footed bats live nowhere outside their island home, but new research shows that hasn't always been the case. The ...
New drug treatment reduces chronic pain following shingles
2014-02-05
A new drug treatment has been found to be effective against chronic pain caused by nerve damage, also known as neuropathic pain, in patients who have had shingles.
The researchers hope that the drug ...
'Severe reduction' in killer whale numbers during last Ice Age
2014-02-05
Whole genome sequencing has revealed a global fall in the numbers of killer whales during the last Ice Age, at a time when ocean productivity may have been widely reduced, according to researchers ...
How states can encourage web-based health care in hospitals
2014-02-05
ANN ARBOR—In the first national look at how broadly web-based technologies are being used to provide health care, a University of Michigan researcher has found that 42 percent of U.S. hospitals use some ...
Study finds dramatic rise in skin cancer among middle-aged adults
2014-02-05
ROCHESTER, Minn — Feb. 3, 2014 — A new Mayo Clinic study found that among middle-aged men and women, 40 to 60 years old, the overall incidence of skin cancer increased nearly eightfold between 1970 and 2009, ...
Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers
2014-02-05
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Look out, super glue and paint thinner. Thanks to new dynamic materials developed at the University of Illinois, removable paint and self-healing plastics soon could be household ...
Personal experience, work seniority improve mental health professionals' outlook
2014-02-05
One might think that after years of seeing people at their worst, mental health workers would harbor negative attitudes about mental illness, perhaps associating people with mental health ...
Telemedicine can reduce hospitalizations for nursing home residents
2014-02-05
LEBANON, NH (Feb. 4, 2014) – Telemedicine used at nursing homes during hours when doctors are not typically present is a viable way to reduce avoidable ...
New study shows core factors and strategies to turn primary care practices into PCMHs
2014-02-05
BOSTON – (February 4, 2014) – A new study conducted by Robert A. Gabbay, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard ...
NASA satellite catches Australia's newborn Tropical Storm Edna and stubborn Fletcher
2014-02-05
Northeastern Australia has been watching two tropical low pressure areas over the last several days, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured both in one infrared image. Tropical Storm Edna ...
Fruit flies -- fermented-fruit connoisseurs -- are relentless party crashers
2014-02-05
That fruit fly joining you just moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used its poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search, one that's been described ...
Taking statins to lower cholesterol? New guidelines
2014-02-05
ROCHESTER, Minn. — Feb. 4, 2014 — Clinicians and patients should use shared decision-making to select individualized treatments based on the new guidelines to prevent cardiovascular disease, according to a commentary ...
3D mapping biopsy finds 3x prostate cancer of ultrasound-guided biopsy
2014-02-05
Ultrasound-guided biopsies miss prostate cancers that are detected by the slightly more expensive and slightly more invasive 3D mapping biopsies. For example, in a 2006 study of 180 men diagnosed ...
AGU journal highlights -- Feb. 4, 2014
2014-02-05
The following highlights summarize research papers that have been recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth (JGR-B), and Paleoceanography.
In this release:
1. Canada's ...
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