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Improving Communication for War-Wounded Refugees in Healthcare

The thesis showed that communication difficulties have meant that war-wounded refugees have found it hard to gain access to the disability support and…

Studies and Analyses

70-Year-Olds Show Enhanced Cognitive Abilities in H70 Study

The H70 study provides data on cognitive symptoms that researchers have used to predict the development of dementia, and also to investigate whether the…

Studies and Analyses

Inside the Daily Work of Health Care Line Managers

As part of her study, Arman shadowed ten line managers in the health care sector for four days each. After shadowing the subjects, who were selected from…

Studies and Analyses

Airbags Significantly Lower Kidney Injury Risk in Crashes

Occupants in motor vehicles with airbags are much less likely to suffer kidney or renal damage in a crash than are occupants in vehicles without airbags,…

Life & Chemistry

Promising new 'antigene' therapy

Antigene therapy is a promising new treatment strategy that uses a DNA-based drug to pinpoint light energy to a target gene shutting down its activity. A…

Environmental Conservation

Coccolithophore Blooms Thrive in Southwest Atlantic Waters

Coccolithophores are key members of the marine phytoplankton community. They are abundant in the sunlit upper layer of the world’s oceans, often forming vast…

Studies and Analyses

Patient Navigation Boosts Mammography Rates in Minority Women

The results, published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, indicate the importance of patient navigation in reducing health disparities in…

Studies and Analyses

Offshore Wind a 'Mixed Bag'

Offshore wind power offers a feasible way for Maryland to help meet its renewable energy goals, but presents some economic and political hurdles, concludes a…

Environmental Conservation

River Ecologist: Missouri Needs Flow of Sediment

A South Dakota State University river ecologist who served on a national panel on Missouri River sediment issues that recently released its findings said that…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Equation Could Advance Research in Solar Cell Materials

Without the Shockley equation, the computers of today would not be possible. Developed in 1949 by William Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, the…

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Celebrating Innovation in Biotech, IT, and Greentech

The current climate is more conducive than ever to the development of innovative projects. European and national policies backing R&D, the ‘grand emprunt’ (a…

Physics & Astronomy

Falkland Islands Radar Study Enhances Climate Research Efforts

Physicists and engineers at the University of Leicester and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have installed a radar system on the Falkland Islands to monitor…

Studies and Analyses

Mountain Lions Spotted in Tucson Mountains: New Research Insights

Using infrared-triggered cameras at 65 sites, UA researchers captured 36 photographs of mountain lions roaming the Tucson Mountains. The study confirmed that…

Physics & Astronomy

It’s Cold and Wet at the Moon’s South Pole

Based on data the group obtained with an instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, NASA chose the impact site for the LCROSS probe, which…

Life & Chemistry

Study Explores Effects of Plastic Chemicals on Children’s Health

A $2 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection…

Awards Funding

Two Researchers from MDC and Charité receive Million Euro Starting Grants from the European Research Council

With his research project Dr. Poy wants to improve the treatment of diabetes, especially the transplantation of pancreatic islets, and to facilitate the…

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