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Essentials of Heart Failure Clinics: New HFSA Statement

To address this gap, the Quality of Care Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) has developed a consensus statement summarizing the…

Health & Medicine

First-Ever Comparable Data on Maternal and Infant Health in Europe

Promoting healthy pregnancy and safe childbirth is a goal of all European health care systems. Despite progress in recent decades, mothers and their babies are…

Health & Medicine

Advancing Medical Imaging: New Models for Adaptive Immunity

Recently, spectacular advances in medical imaging combined with mathematical tools for modelling the human immune system have provided a base for a new push…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Website Launches for People with Multiple Sclerosis

The research team led by Professor Rona Moss-Morris at the School of Psychology, with the technological side led by Dr Gary Wills at the School of Electronics…

Environmental Conservation

World's first deep sea lab-on-a-chip sensors proved to work

Nine months into the four year £2 million Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded…

Communications Media

EU’s Technology Neutrality Shortcomings in Communication Services

That is one of the conclusions of Ilse van der Haar’s PhD-thesis, which she defended at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. The European Union could have…

Communications Media

Unlocking Localized Mobile Services with LOMS Platform

The LOMS platform and open-source tools, together with new intermediaries, give service providers the opportunity of easily generating specialised localized…

Health & Medicine

Dark Chocolate Father Christmas: A Healthier Holiday Treat

We have known for a long time that it is healthier to eat dark chocolate, but now scientists at the Department of Human Nutrition at LIFE, University of…

Business and Finance

Credit Crunch Affects Homeowners: Understanding Mortgage Trends

Mortgage equity withdrawal is a much more popular and frequent event than previously thought. New figures show that borrowers haven’t just used their housing…

Environmental Conservation

Loch Leven’s Recovery: 40 Years of Scientific Innovation

The conclusions will be presented at a symposium in Kinross, Scotland on 11 December 2008 by scientists from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology who have…

Environmental Conservation

Butterflies at Risk: Climate Change Shifts Their Habitat in Europe

The Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies predicts northward shifts in potential distribution area of many European butterfly species. As early warning…

Health & Medicine

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: New Insights from China Study

Susan van den Hof, from the KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation in The Netherlands is one of the authors on a Chinese study into the prevalence of multi-drug…

Health & Medicine

Panic Attacks Increase Heart Disease Risk in Younger Adults

The study found that people who were younger than 50 when first diagnosed had a significantly higher risk of subsequent heart attacks (or myocardial…

Health & Medicine

Late Preterm Births: Understanding Risks to Newborn Health

Despite the large number of affected babies, many people are unaware of the serious health problems related to late preterm births. A new study and an…

Physics & Astronomy

Building a Telescope at the South Pole: A Global Effort

The physicists, engineers and technicians from the University of Delaware's Bartol Research Institute are part of an international team working to build the…

Studies and Analyses

New Research on Hurricane-Resistant Green Homes

Well, the technology is closer than you think. A professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is set for six months of overseas research aimed at…

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