Like other “prion” diseases, CWD is caused by unusual, infectious proteins called prions. One of the best-known of these diseases is “mad cow” disease, a…
Want a Nissan Leaf? Join the 20,000 people on the waiting list to get one. The Chevy Volt got your eye? General Motors ramped up availability earlier this year…
The more than 2.7 million new HIV infections recorded per year leave little doubt that the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to spread globally. That’s why there’s…
A man's rising PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level over several years – which had been seen as a possible warning sign of prostate cancer – has recently come…
Now, a new study led by Valencian researchers has shown that children who live in colder, wetter cities are at greater risk of suffering from this respiratory…
In a study in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology, they describe hints that one flame retardant, banned years ago in some areas, actually remains…
A study conducted at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy found that only 28 percent of pharmacies' clinical decision support software systems – the…
Country roadways can be hazardous for moose and men. According to estimates, millions of vehicles collide with moose, elk and caribou in North America and…
One strategy has been to determine whether physiologic measures that are abnormal in people diagnosed with schizophrenia might also be useful in estimating the…
But even happiness can have a dark side, according to the authors of a new review article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the…
Not so fast, says a new study by researchers at MIT.In some cases, the conventional wisdom is indeed correct. But out of 25 case studies on products in eight…
Ongoing, intrinsic brain activity that is not task-related accounts for the majority of energy used by the human brain.This surprising finding, along with…
For the study, researchers reviewed the cases of 40 people from the Neurological Tissue Bank-University of Barcelona-Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS in Barcelona,…
The most lethal and sudden cardiovascular event can be the toughest for doctors to diagnose.But a study by the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center…
This is the first known study to examine the relationship between school victimization during adolescence – specifically related to sexual orientation and…
By looking at what happens in the brain after an injury, new research has finally ended speculation over whether a key molecule, 'KCC2' causes brain cell death…
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