Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

McMaster Study Challenges Clopidogrel Effectiveness Reports

After researchers from the United States, France and Germany reported clopidogrel is less effective in some patients, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…

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Parental Medicine Misuse Poses Risks to Children’s Health

The researchers, led by Dr. Rebekah Moles from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, say that dosing errors and inappropriate use of such medicines lead…

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Neuronal Diversity: Key Insights from Carnegie Mellon Study

Much like snowflakes, no two neurons are exactly alike. But it's not the size or shape that sets one neuron apart from another, it's the way it responds to…

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Smoking Linked to Increased Depression Symptoms in Teens

While some teenagers may puff on cigarettes to 'self-medicate' against the blues, scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of Montreal have…

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Vaccine Reduces Child Cases of Bacterial Pneumonia in Europe

Bacterial pneumonia is a serious illness caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria that mostly affects babies, young children and elderly people. In Europe,…

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Vaccine Reduces Child Bacterial Pneumonia Cases, Study Finds

Bacterial pneumonia is a serious illness caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria that mostly affects babies, young children and elderly people. In Europe,…

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Moms who don't breastfeed more likely to develop type 2 diabetes

“We have seen dramatic increases in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes over the last century,” said Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of…

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Best and Worst Moments Found in Social Relationships

In the first study of its kind, researchers have found compelling evidence that our best and worst experiences in life are likely to involve not individual…

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Reclassifying Traumatic Brain Injury as a Chronic Disease

Traumatic brain injury, currently considered a singular event by the insurance industry and many health care providers, is instead the beginning of an ongoing…

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Texas A&M research produces tools to study stallions' subfertility

They have developed protocols to isolate RNA—which carries the information of genes in DNA — from stallion sperm and testis biopsies so that genetic factors…

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Walking Improves Brain Connectivity in Older Adults

The study, in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, followed 65 adults, aged 59 to 80, who joined a walking group or stretching and toning group for a year. All of…

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Core Values Unite Americans Amid Divisions, Survey Reveals

Americans are united when it comes to many core values, according to a University of Michigan survey. But the nation is deeply divided about certain issues,…

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Light and Circadian Rhythms: Impact on Physiology and Behavior

Prior to this, five “DNA binding sites” in this fungus were known to be responsible for gene activation by light exposure. Through advanced “high throughput”…

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Gender Differences in Energy Compensation: New Research Insights

The study, conducted by Viren Ranawana and Professor Jeya Henry of the Functional Food Centre at Oxford Brookes University, is the first of its kind to compare…

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Patients Report More Issues Post-Surgery, Study Reveals

Researchers from The Netherlands spoke to 216 women and 185 men with an average age of 54, who had undergone planned surgery, ranging from plastic surgery to…

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BPA Linked to Changes in Testosterone Levels: New Research Insights

An international group of researchers led by the Peninsula Medical School and the University of Exeter have for the first time identified changes in sex…

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