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New Treatment for Restless Legs Syndrome Enhances Sleep Quality

The 12 week study involved 58 people with RLS. Of the group, 30 people received the drug pregabalin and the rest received placebo. Sleep studies were performed…

Health & Medicine

Immunotherapy Boosts Survival for Advanced Prostate Cancer

Sipuleucel-T (Provenge), an experimental immunotherapy improved survival in men with metastatic disease, according to new results to be presented April 28 at…

Science Education

Driving Change: The Case for Sustainable Education Reform

The oxymoron stems from the reality of complex social processes. But this complexity is paralyzing educational reform efforts, said Century, director of…

Life & Chemistry

New CTIP2 Regulator Advances Head and Throat Cancer Diagnosis

This “transcriptional regulator” is called CTIP2, and in recent research has been demonstrated to be a master regulator that has important roles in many…

Studies and Analyses

Purdue Study: Dairy Outperforms Calcium Carbonate for Bones

Connie Weaver, distinguished professor and head of the food and nutrition department, found that the bones of rats fed nonfat dry milk were longer, wider, more…

Life & Chemistry

Discovering Fullerenes: The Soccer-Ball Shaped Molecule

The discovery of a soccer-ball-shaped molecule made of 60 carbon atoms was a minor revolution in chemistry: Fullerenes are spherical, highly symmetrical…

Life & Chemistry

World's largest DNA scan for autism uncovers new gene variant for disorder

UCLA scientists, in partnership with 30 research institutions across the country, have identified a new gene variant that is highly common in autistic…

Information Technology

Boosting Hospital Efficiency with Siemens EHP4 Update

Effective immediately, Siemens Healthcare is offering EHP4 (Enhancement Package 4) for its i.s.h.med hospital information system (HIS). In keeping with the new…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Reveals Overlooked Arterial Disease in Heart Patients

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is prevalent in patients with PAD and it is known that PAD is under diagnosed in the primary care setting, but a new study found…

Life & Chemistry

Matrix Protein Breakthrough: Key to Virus Defense

Team members, Dr John Sanderson and Dr Paul Yeo from Durham University have helped produce the first ever, high-resolution, full-length structure of a protein…

Medical Engineering

Noninvasive Monitor Uses Light for Patient Care and Sports

A noninvasive, needle-free system that uses light to measure tissue oxygen and pH will soon be an alternative to the painful use of needles to draw blood and…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria-Based System to Treat Hazardous Wastewater in Bulacan

A heightened awareness of the condition of its rivers had led local government units and concerned agencies in the province of Bulacan to tap BIOTECH of UP Los…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Protein Treatment Targets Osteoarthritis Cartilage Loss

Florida Atlantic University researcher Dr. Keith Brew, Schmidt Senior Fellow and Distinguished Professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical…

Physics & Astronomy

Michigan Astronomer Explores Space for Life’s Precursors

They hope to gain insights into how organic molecules form in space, and possibly, how life formed on Earth.”The chemistry of space makes molecules that are…

Earth Sciences

Google Earth Helps Discover Early African Mammal Fossils

The circuitous and serendipitous story, featuring University of Michigan paleontologists Philip Gingerich, Gregg Gunnell and Bill Sanders, is the subject of a…

Studies and Analyses

Molecular and Fossil Data: Insights for Evolutionary Studies

During a seminar at another institution several years ago, University of Chicago paleontologist David Jablonski fielded a hostile question: Why bother…

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