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Antithrombotics Linked to Higher Stroke Deaths in Seniors Over 75

Antithrombotic drugs, such as aspirin, reduce the risk of strokes and heart attacks in people who are known to have vascular disease. However, there is no…

Communications Media

British Academy Partners With Dare for Ones to Watch Awards

The three winning teams from this year's Dare to be Digital competition, held between June and August, will become the shortlist for the new BAFTA Ones to…

Life & Chemistry

The Hidden Cost of Losing Money in Everyday Gambles

“Many everyday financial decisions, such as playing the lottery or investing money are gambles in some form or another, and most of these gambles involve the…

Social Sciences

Supporting Children of Substance Misusers: Key Insights

Drawing on research from around the world, the review highlights ways of reducing children’s exposure to risk and increasing the protective factors that…

Life & Chemistry

The largest ever donation for Danish basic research – new protein research centre

“Thanks to this exceptional donation, we can boost research into what proteins look like and how they behave and interact in cells and tissues in healthy and…

Interdisciplinary Research

Artificial Snot Boosts Electronic Nose Sensitivity

The researchers have coated the sensors used by odour sensing “electronic noses” with a mix of polymers that mimics the action of the mucus in the natural…

Life & Chemistry

Protein Discovery May Reduce Organ Dysfunction in Heart Transplants

A new study, led by Felix Aigner, M.D., has identified a protein known as Lipocalin-2 (Lcn-2) as potentially responsible for regulating the body’s inflammatory…

Health & Medicine

New Criteria for Depression Remission Explained

The aims of this review were to survey the available literature on residual symptoms of depression, to introduce new targets for therapy and to outline a more…

Studies and Analyses

Zinc salts effective in treating Verneuil's disease (hidradenitis suppurativa)

Verneuil's disease is a chronic, suppurative dermatosis involving the apocrine glands with a severe impact on the quality of life. There is no standard…

Health & Medicine

Simple Questions Reveal Hip Fracture Risk in Seniors

Nearly 18,000 Swedes undergo surgery for a fractured hip each year. Nearly all of these are elderly women.”A fractured hip is a disability, it causes pain, it…

Health & Medicine

Tungsten Spike in Tree Rings Linked to Nevada Leukemia Cluster

The amount of tungsten in tree rings from Fallon quadrupled between 1990 and 2002, whereas the amount in tree rings from nearby towns remained the same,…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Ice Retreats Faster Than Climate Models Predict

Because of the disparity between actual observations and the models, the shrinking of summertime ice is about 30 years ahead of climate model projections, the…

Medical Engineering

MIT Team Unveils High-Res 3D Eye Imaging System

The research will be presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference in Baltimore on May 10.The new imaging system is based on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), which uses light to obtain high-resolution, cross-sectional images of the eye to visualize subtle changes that occur in retinal disease. OCT was developed in the early 1990s by MIT Professor James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and collaborators; Fujimoto is an author of the report to be presented in May….

Environmental Conservation

Beijing Traffic Restrictions Improve Air Quality During Summit

The restrictions on Beijing drivers coincided with a summit meeting on China- Africa cooperation from Nov. 4-6, 2006, during which an estimated 800,000 of…

Health & Medicine

New Genetic Test Identifies Hepatitis C Cirrhosis Risk

The Stanford group was one of the five sites that helped determine that the genetic test can identify patients who are at high risk of developing cirrhosis…

Life & Chemistry

Gold nanoparticles help detect a toxic metal — mercury

An article detailing the colorimetric screening technology and its success detecting mercury will be published online April 27 by Angewandte Chemie, the…

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