Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Over Half of Depression Patients Abandon Treatment Plans

“Only one in every five patients properly completes their treatment”, Catalina Serna, co-author of the study, and an expert at the Jordi Gol Primary Care…

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Prostate Cancer Study Reveals No Link to Recurrence Risk

Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that there is no link between localized prostate…

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Canada’s Housing Crisis: 1 Homeless, 23 in Inadequate Living

For every one person in Canada who is homeless, another 23 live in unsafe, crowded or unaffordable housing, meaning the country's housing crisis is even worse…

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Study Challenges Link Between ALS and Head Trauma Claims

A recent study (1) suggesting that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) may be attributed to “repetitive head trauma experienced in collision sports” lacks…

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Online Undergrads Thrive Despite Weaker Class Connections

College students participating in a new study on online courses said they felt less connected and had a smaller sense of classroom community than those who…

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Understaning a Vulnerable Species

Hunted for centuries for their oil (and until the 1970s for dog food), there may be only 160 of these gentle giants in the population found off Nova Scotia. In…

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Name Your Price: A Pricing Strategy Aimed at Achieving Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit

Nelson says the concept of “shared social responsibility,” a term coined by the study’s authors, may provide the sustainability component often lacking in…

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Study shows importance of exercise for those at special risk for Alzheimer's

Physical activity promotes changes in the brain that may protect high-risk individuals against cognitive decline, including development of Alzheimer's disease,…

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Redefining Borders: Understanding Our Evolving Connections

What are borders these days? When travel was local, borders and communities were easy to define, but now our connectivity is more complex. It's time to think…

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New Hope for Multiple Sclerosis: ATL313 Injection Shows Promise

Watkins and her colleagues in CU-Boulder's department of psychology and neuroscience discovered that a single injection of a compound called ATL313 — an…

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Bacteria use 'toxic darts' to disable each other, according to UCSB scientists

“The discovery of toxic darts could eventually lead to new ways to control disease-causing pathogens,” said Stephanie K. Aoki, first author and postdoctoral…

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Addressing Poverty’s Impact on Violence Against Teenage Girls

The new results suggest violence prevention strategies need to focus more on local inequalities, especially to protect vulnerable adolescent girls.The survey…

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US Adults Struggle With Healthcare Costs, Survey Reveals

A new 11-country survey from The Commonwealth Fund finds that adults in the United States are far more likely than those in 10 other industrialized nations to…

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PNA Enhances Cherbourg-Rouen Links as Transshipment Hub

This study, which is being carried out by EUROTRANS, a consultancy firm that specialises in port development, will identify opportunities for this…

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Researchers Teach Medical Search Engines to Learn Slang

However, a group of Georgia Tech researchers have created a machine-learning model that enables the sites to “learn” dialect and other medical vernacular,…

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Bone Hardness Impacts Hearing Loss: Key Findings Revealed

In their study, the scientists discovered that blocking the function of a particular molecule in the ear bone of mice decreased the hardness of the bone,…

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