The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS') award-winning Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions podcast series features a small, paper-based device that can monitor ...

An EORTC study published in Lancet Oncology found that health-related quality of life (HRQOL) assessment in small-cell lung cancer randomized clinical trials provides relevant ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers are proposing a new technology that might control the flow of heat the way electronic devices control electrical current, an advance that could have applications in a diverse ...

A new study from UNC's Frank Porter ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 28-Jan-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Marta Calsina mcalsina@imim.es 34-933-160-680 IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) Measuring waist circumference would improve the detection of children and adolescents with cardiometabolic risk Although abdominal obesity has increased greatly in recent years among children and adolescents, this indicator is not used in ...

NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on a developing area of tropical low pressure known as System 91S that was brushing the Nampala Province of Mozambique on January 28. Nampula ...

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with partners from the Electric Power Research Institute and the University of ...

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1. Pandemic concerns prompt experts to seek better understanding of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Health officials have expressed concern that the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that two of the world's most devastating plagues – the plague of Justinian and the Black Death, each responsible for killing as many ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Jan-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Emily Caldwell caldwell.151@osu.edu 614-292-8310 Ohio State University Yoga can lower fatigue, inflammation in breast cancer survivors In study, the more women practiced, the better the results VIDEO: There are few experts who debate ...

PITTSBURGH—An enthusiastic group of non-experts, working through an online interface and receiving ...

Scientists have known for more than 40 years that the synthetic pesticide DDT is harmful to bird habitats ...

Inappropriate antibiotic ...

Patients with Alzheimer's disease have significantly higher levels of DDE, the long-lasting metabolite of the pesticide DDT, in their blood than healthy people, a ...

Retrieval of ancient DNA molecules is usually performed with special precautions to prevent DNA from researchers or the environment to get mixed in with the DNA from the fossil. However, many ancient ...

In the largest retrospective study to date ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2014 — After several years and millions of views, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, is bidding farewell to its popular ...

From a zebra carcass on the plains of Namibia in Southern Africa, an international team of researchers has discovered a new, unusually large virus (or bacteriophage) that infects the bacterium that causes anthrax. ...

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Millions of people each year remove wrinkles, soften creases and plump up their lips by injecting a gel-like material into their facial tissue. These cosmetic procedures are sometimes called "liquid ...

LEBANON, NH (JAN. 27, 1014) – The Choosing Wisely campaign, lists of services developed by physicians' specialty societies, is a good start ...

In normal development, all cells turn off genes they don't need, often by attaching a chemical methyl group to the DNA, a process called methylation. Historically, scientists believed methyl groups ...

Women who are deficient in vitamin D in the first 26 weeks of their pregnancy may be at risk of developing severe preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening ...