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Chest Compressions First: Effective After Cardiac Arrest

Chest compressions before defibrillation in patients with sudden cardiac arrest is equally successful as immediate treatment with an electrical defibrillator,…

Health & Medicine

Medication for Insomnia or Anxiety Raises Mortality Risk 36%

Dr. Belleville arrived at these results through analysis of 12 years of data on over 14,000 Canadians in Statistics Canada's National Population Health Survey….

Life & Chemistry

The public looks at synthetic biology — cautiously

Synthetic biology—defined as the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems or re-design of existing natural biological systems for…

Life & Chemistry

European Scientists Uncover Gene Network Linked to Type 1 Diabetes

Within a large international collaborative study, lead by Norbert Hübner (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) in Berlin-Buch, Germany) and Stuart…

Physics & Astronomy

GOCE Satellite Resumes Operations After Communication Failures

The recovery follows a serious communications malfunction on 8 July, when the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite…

Life & Chemistry

Tuatara Insights: What This New Zealand Reptile Reveals About Dentures

The tuatara is a lizard-like reptile that has iconic status in its homeland of New Zealand because its ancestors were widespread at the time of the dinosaurs….

Studies and Analyses

Is Hand Washing Enough to Prevent Disease Spread?

A study by researchers at the University of Bradford and published today in the Journal of Applied Microbiology looked at different methods of hand drying, and…

Studies and Analyses

Kidney Donor Study Reveals Age and Obesity Complications

Researchers from Iran studied 360 recipients who had received kidneys from unrelated donors to discover what factors increased the risk of TRAS, where the…

Life & Chemistry

Multi-Resistant Skin Bacteria Spread in Hospitals

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are bacteria that belong to the protective bacterial flora on the skin and seldom cause infections in healthy…

Life & Chemistry

New Gene Set Helps Identify Chemo Benefits After Surgery

“The findings give patients and their doctors a clearer map of the appropriate post-operative treatment route to follow. Not all patients benefit from…

Health & Medicine

Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes

In a study of patients with stage III colon cancer – characterized as cancer in the large bowel area with some cancer cells in a few nearby lymph nodes — the…

Physics & Astronomy

Spotting Volcanoes on Alien Worlds: Astronomers Discover Clues

Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they're asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if…

Studies and Analyses

Short sleepers at higher risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease

A study by a team of researchers from Warwick Medical School and the State University of New York at Buffalo has found short sleep duration is associated with…

Communications Media

Digital Film Reel: The Shift to Digital Production in Cinema

In the production of films for movie theaters and cinemas, digital technology is pushing the film reel aside much more slowly than it does with photography. Up…

Studies and Analyses

Injury Rates Spur Concern in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighborhoods compared with those living in the highest income…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Oregano Supplement Cuts Dairy Cow Methane Emissions by 40%

In a series of laboratory experiments and a live animal test, an oregano-based supplement not only decreased methane emissions in dairy cows by 40 percent, but…

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