Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

First Atomic Images of CLOCK Complex Reveal Cellular Secrets

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have taken a major step toward understanding the cellular clock, mapping for the first time the atomic-level…

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Predicting Future Medical Conditions with New Statistical Model

Like how Netflix recommends movies and TV shows or how Amazon.com suggests products to buy, the algorithm makes predictions based on what a patient has already…

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Duloxetine Eases Chemotherapy Pain, Study Reveals

The antidepressant drug duloxetine, known commercially as Cymbalta, helped relieve painful tingling feelings caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients,…

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Expanding the Genetic Alphabet: New Insights from Research

An expanded “DNA alphabet” could carry more information than natural DNA, potentially coding for a much wider range of molecules and enabling a variety of…

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Lower Income Cancer Patients Face Barriers in Clinical Trials

Cancer patients with annual household incomes below $50,000 were less likely to participate in clinical trials than patients with annual incomes of $50,000 or…

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Study: Climate Change Threatens Nuclear and Coal Plants

A study by European and University of Washington scientists published today in Nature Climate Change projects that in the next 50 years warmer water and lower…

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Guidance Needed for Smart Fish Consumption Choices

In a first-of-its kind summary of fish consumption choices, a team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital has determined that consumers are not…

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Raisins as Snacks: Study Shows Benefits for Child Satiety

New research recently announced at the Canadian Nutrition Society annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C., suggests eating raisins as an after-school snack prevents…

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Runners Boost Health and Performance with Less Training

Over the course of seven weeks, runners were able to improve performance on a 1500-metre run by 23 seconds and almost by a minute on a 5-km run – and this…

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Juvenile Arthritis: Impact on Adult Employment Opportunities

Findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), suggest that functional disability impacts educational…

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High Activity Boosts Arterial Health: Women Benefit More

A reduction in compliance of the body's large arteries has been shown to occur with age and with inactivity. It also is considered a risk factor, predictive of…

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Marriage Study Reveals Insights on Happiness Levels

Their study, online in the Journal of Research in Personality, finds that although matrimony does not make people happier than they were when they were single,…

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Painkillers Linked to Lower Skin Cancer Risk: Study Insights

Previous studies suggest that taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, which include aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen, as well as a variety of…

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NIH Study Explores Mobile Tech for Healthier Diet and Activity

The study results will appear Monday, May 28, in the Archives of Internal Medicine, with an accompanying commentary authored by William Riley, Ph.D., a…

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Analyzing disease transmission at the community level

While it is established that immunity can be an important factor in the large-scale distribution of disease, this study demonstrates that local variation at…

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1 size doesn't fit all when treating blood pressure in people with diabetes, VA/U-M study suggests

Aggressive efforts to lower blood pressure in people with diabetes are paying off – perhaps too well, according to a new study The research shows that there…

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