Orca's survival during the Ice Age
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, ...
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How your memory rewrites the past
CHICAGO --- Your memory is a wily time traveler, plucking fragments of the present and inserting them into the past, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® ...
Read the releaseMediterranean diet linked with lower risk of heart disease among young US workers
Boston, MA -- Among a large group of Midwestern firefighters, greater adherence to Mediterranean-style diet was associated with lower risk factors for cardiovascular disease ...
Read the releaseHeart disease warning at age 18
CHICAGO – –Elevated blood pressure as young as age 18 is a warning sign of cardiovascular disease developing later in life and the time ...
Read the releaseMRIs help predict which atrial fibrillation patients will benefit from catheter ablation
MAYWOOD, Il. – A new type of contrast MRI can predict which heart patients with atrial fibrillation are most likely to benefit from ...
Read the releaseSucker-footed fossils broaden the bat map
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 ...
Read the releaseNew drug treatment reduces chronic pain following shingles
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 ...
Read the release'Severe reduction' in killer whale numbers during last Ice Age
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 ...
Read the releaseHow states can encourage web-based health care in hospitals
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 ...
Read the releaseStudy finds dramatic rise in skin cancer among middle-aged adults
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, ...
Read the releaseOff-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers
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 ...
Read the releasePersonal experience, work seniority improve mental health professionals' outlook
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 ...
Read the releaseTelemedicine can reduce hospitalizations for nursing home residents
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 ...
Read the releaseNew study shows core factors and strategies to turn primary care practices into PCMHs
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 ...
Read the releaseNASA satellite catches Australia's newborn Tropical Storm Edna and stubborn Fletcher
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 ...
Read the releaseFruit flies -- fermented-fruit connoisseurs -- are relentless party crashers
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 ...
Read the releaseTaking statins to lower cholesterol? New guidelines
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 ...
Read the release3D mapping biopsy finds 3x prostate cancer of ultrasound-guided biopsy
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 ...
Read the releaseAGU journal highlights -- Feb. 4, 2014
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 ...
Read the releaseNew study finds feeling 'in control' can help you live longer
Do you believe in your own ability to succeed, or do you believe life events are largely beyond your control? Think carefully ...
Read the releaseGood hair day: New technique grows tiny 'hairy' materials at the microscale
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory attacked a tangled problem by developing a new technique to grow tiny "hairy" materials that assemble themselves ...
Read the releaseStory tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2014
ENERGY – LEDs to light UT arena . . . With the installation this month of LED fixtures, the University of Tennessee's Thompson-Boling Arena will become the first major sports ...
Read the releaseBrain scans show we take risks because we can't stop ourselves
A new study correlating brain activity with how people make decisions ...
Read the releaseFor viewers, Sochi will be first 'fully mobile' Olympics
Akron, Ohio, Feb. 4, 2014 — The Sochi Winter Olympics, Feb. 7-23, are expected to generate a dramatic rise in Web and mobile viewing, but that does not mean viewers will ...
Read the releaseNerve block eases troublesome hot flashes
CLEVELAND, Ohio (February 5, 2014)—Injecting a little anesthetic near a nerve bundle ...
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