WASHINGTON (Feb. 4, 2014) – A new study by George Washington University (GW) researcher Michael Bukrinsky, M.D., Ph.D., shows similarities in the pathogenesis of prion disease — misfolded ...
A study of 230 patients with bipolar I disorder whose symptoms were severe enough to warrant admission to a Rhode Island psychiatric hospital in 2010 reveals that more than a third were there despite taking four ...
The state of Qatar occupies a small peninsula of 11,500 km2 within the Arabian Peninsula. Both Qatar's population and economy have increased rapidly during the last decades, thus putting ...
Designing nanomedicine to combat diseases is a hot area of scientific research, primarily for treating cancer, but very little is known in the context of atherosclerotic disease. ...
A new Dartmouth study provides the first evidence that people use the same brain circuitry to figure out space, time and social distances.
The findings, which help reveal ...
A new study from the University of Iowa shows evidence that stock price movements are, in fact, predictable during short windows.
The study by researchers in ...
When putting together a team of scientists to work on a problem, it makes sense to bring together the best and brightest in the field, right?
Well, maybe not.
In a newly published paper, a team of researchers from ...
Queen's University Belfast's world renowned cancer specialist, Professor Patrick Johnston, whose work has transformed cancer care in Northern Ireland, is now leading ...
Understanding and properly studying fear is partly a matter of correctly defining fear itself, New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux writes in a new essay published in Proceedings ...
Boulder, Colorado, USA – In the February issue of GSA Today, Lorena Moscardelli of the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences documents evidence in support ...
PHILADELPHIA – All creatures great and small, including fruitflies, need sleep. Researchers have surmised that sleep – in any species -- is necessary for repairing proteins, consolidating ...
People seriously injured by violence are no more likely to die in the years after they are shot, stabbed or beaten than those who are seriously injured in accidents, Johns ...
Obesity is a known risk factor for many cancers including colon cancer, yet the reasons behind the colon cancer link have often remained unclear.
A Michigan State University study is shedding more ...
With nearly one-third of Americans suffering from chronic pain, prescription opioid painkillers have become the leading form of treatment for this debilitating condition. ...
New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.
According to the study published ...
High blood pressure could be as devastating to global health as HIV, a group of experts is warning.
Writing in the International Journal of Epidemiology this week, Prof Peter Lloyd-Sherlock from the University of ...