Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Older Drivers Often Involved in Daytime Crashes More Severe than Younger Drivers' Crashes

Kansas State University researchers are discovering the challenges aging creates for drivers.To help improve traffic safety, K-State engineers identified the…

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Patient-Reported Outcomes Show Life Quality Gains With TYSABRI

Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) today announced results from a one-year, longitudinal health outcomes study (n=324) in which…

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Flu Season Peaks Differently for Older Adults Across States

New England states such as Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire tend to have the latest peak in seasonal flu, according to public health researchers at Tufts…

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Factors Behind Disease Geography: Key Insights from New Study

A new study examining the geography of human disease, led by Dr. Rob Dunn at North Carolina State University alongside an international team of biologists and…

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Familial Danish Dementia shares similarities to Alzheimer's disease

The transgenic model recapitulates many features of the human disease and proves to be valuable for further research into the disease and for the development…

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Slobbery kisses from 'man's best friend' aid cancer research

Fido's wet licks might hold more than love. They could provide the DNA keys to findings new treatments for rare cancers and other diseases in both dogs and…

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Video Games and Sleep: Mild Impact on Teen Rest Quality

Results show that after playing a stimulating video game it took adolescents a median of 7.5 minutes to fall asleep, which was only slightly longer than the…

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Statins Show Promise in Slowing Multiple Sclerosis Progression

Study participants received an 80 milligram daily dose of atorvastatin, marketed by Pfizer Inc. as Lipitor. Although the study was small with only 81…

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Exclusive Licensing Deals: A Tool for Strategic Collaboration

Deepak Somaya says the findings reveal that granting rights to a sole partner is a tool to curb risk and leverage cooperation, not to corner the market when…

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Fetal Epigenetics: Changes in Placentas Revealed by Study

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that epigenetic marks on human placentas change from the first trimester of pregnancy to the third, a…

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Materialistic people liked less by peers than 'experiential' people

Van Boven has spent a decade studying the social costs and benefits of pursuing happiness through the acquisition of life experiences such as traveling and…

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Diet Alone Won’t Drive Weight Loss: Understanding the Science

This appears to be due to a natural compensatory mechanism that reduces a person's physical activity in response to a reduction in calories. The research is…

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Understanding the Rise of Allergies in Developed Countries

Allergies have become a widespread in developed countries: hay fever, eczema, hives and asthma are all increasingly prevalent. The reason? Excessive…

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Exploring Jealousy: Insights on Social Relationships and Perception

The researchers suggest that their results reveal something profound about social relationships and perception: It has long been known that the emotions…

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Patients with Amnesia Still Feel Emotions, Despite Memory Loss

For the study, published this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers showed individuals with memory loss…

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Dual Approach Enhances Understanding of Autistic Brain Function

The study, published in the April issue of neuroimaging journal Human Brain Mapping, was conducted by researchers at The Montreal Neurological Institute and…

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