Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Innovative Solutions to Combat Child Deaths from Infectious Diseases

“With less than five years to reach the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 4—to reduce child deaths by two-thirds from 1990 levels—it is vital for…

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Regenstrief Study Evaluates Health Info Tech Investment Value

The study, which appears in the May/June 2010 issue of Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, also reports on the initial assessment of that…

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G20 Summit: Challenges to Major Reform and Cooperation

But the “prospect for effective cooperation is not encouraging,” says the paper, adding the G20’s size “may be a problem.” That’s because the more countries…

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British Indian Children Show Improved Mental Health Insights

Anna Goodman, the report's lead author from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says: “Most research into ethnic differences focuses on issues where…

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Traffic Density Linked to Higher BMI in Neighborhoods

People living in neighbourhoods where they perceived traffic made it unpleasant to walk were more likely to have a higher BMI than those who didn't, according…

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Researchers To Send Bacteria Into Orbit Aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will send an army of microorganisms into space this week, to investigate new ways of preventing the…

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Folic Acid Boosts Vascular Health in Amenorrheic Runners

While the benefits for women leading an active lifestyle, including running, are profound and well-known, there are serious exercise-associated health risks….

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Telephone Therapy Effective for Depression, Study Finds

Treating clinical depression on the telephone is nearly as effective as face-to-face consultations, a new Brigham Young University study finds.The trial run…

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Can a Mother's Voice Spur Recovery From a Coma?

Karen Schroeder's voice, recorded on a CD, reminded her son, Ryan, of his 4-H project when he was 10 and decided to raise pigs. “You bid on three beautiful…

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Metabolic Vulnerability in TB: New Drug Target Discovered

Tuberculosis (TB) has been present in humans since ancient times. The origins of the disease date back to the first domestication of cattle, and skeletal…

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Did phosphorus trigger complex evolution — and blue skies?

According to this model, proposed in a new paper by Dominic Papineau of the Carnegie Institution for Science, the higher levels of phosphorus would have caused…

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First Landscape Study of Apes and Elephants Released

The study looked at wildlife populations in northern Republic of Congo over a mosaic of land-use types, including a national park, a community-managed reserve,…

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Satellite Study Covers Forest Loss Worldwide

Despite ongoing threats to rain forests in the Amazon and Congo river basins and in Indonesia, losses were greatest in those boreal forests, followed by humid…

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Benefits Matter in Agriculture Job Displacement

Now, a North Carolina State University study suggests that this intuition is true: out-of-work agricultural laborers from small farms that do not provide…

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Kidney Removal Doesn’t Extend Life for Elderly Cancer Patients

The research reveals that these patients typically have other medical problems of greater significance and that many should receive more conservative…

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New Mouse Grimace Scale Aids Pain Detection in Humans, Animals

McGill Psychology Prof. Jeffrey Mogil, UBC Psychology Prof. Kenneth Craig and their respective teams have discovered that when subjected to moderate pain…

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