In a recent national survey, a substantial minority of physicians erroneously believed that certain off-label uses of prescription drugs were approved by the…
The research team has just published the important discovery about the causes of cardiac arrhythmias (abnormal heartbeats) in one of the world's leading…
The study found that people with high diastolic blood pressure, which is the bottom number of a blood pressure reading, were more likely to have cognitive…
Their study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to identify a single, objective molecular marker of the disorder, and to…
However, due to privacy concerns that the identity of individuals could be determined through DNA data, health institutes in the US and abroad removed public…
The finding, published online Sunday, Aug. 23, by the journal Nature Immunology, could lead to new therapies for human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and…
And there's a lot of raw power in those racks. Cystorm, a Sun Microsystems machine, boasts a peak performance of 28.16 trillion calculations per second. That's…
While previous studies have shown that the average adolescent is exposed to well over 200 alcohol ads on television each year, this is the first to demonstrate…
Writing in the August 20 online issue of Cell Host and Microbe, scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)…
Until recently, factory smokestacks that produced nothing but carbon dioxide and water vapor were considered exemplary. Now CO2 has become notorious as a…
According to David Albouy, a University of Michigan economist, workers in expensive cities in the Northeast, Great Lakes and Pacific regions bear a…
The study, by biologist Adam Munn from the University of Sydney, Australia, will be published in the forthcoming issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
That's because swampy mangrove forests – essential breeding grounds for fish and shellfish in these countries – are being destroyed by worsening pollution,…
When the nose encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them separately through each nostril in an alternating fashion.This finding…
For decades there has been interest in phonon lasers that emit quanta of vibrational energy – so called phonons – instead of light. In solids, because of the…
The researchers, from Imperial College London, say their findings improve understanding of the way Leishmania parasites establish an infection and could aid…
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