A new study links chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, with increased activity of cells that act as sentinels to activate the body's immune system. The University of Michigan and Veterans Affairs research adds to growing awareness of the immune system's role in COPD, a serious, progressive lung disease that affects more than 12 million Americans with wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightening and other symptoms. Understanding immune factors is key if doctors are to find better ways to detect and treat the disease early when patients might benefit most, believe some COPD researchers….
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“Health care spending should be viewed as an investment in future capital, contributing to a productive workforce, rather than merely as an expenditure,” says…
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The study, which assessed the impacts of the partnership's legislative plan, found that measures being proposed would cost the average American household $57,…
The findings indicate that glacial rebound — the rise or fall of land masses that were depressed by the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial…
When new products will be highly technical, a better way to develop them is for specialists to do their work in private and collaborate through ‘nominal’…
Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The results of the study conducted by Dr. Thomas Baumgartner and…
New research led by biogeochemists Travis Horton of the University of Canterbury and Joel Blum of the University of Michigan lays the groundwork for assessing…
A quasicrystal is a solid whose components exhibit long-range order, but without a single pattern or a unit cell that repeats. A paper on the findings appears…
Now, for the first time, a scientific team has collected information on the conditions of castration on European pigs. The main conclusion of the study, that…
Carnegie Mellon University scientists Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have uncovered the first evidence that intensive instruction to improve reading skills in…
A study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that when it comes to…
A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects has shown that the sexual hormone with the poor…
University of Alberta biological sciences professor David Schindler was part of the team that conducted a long term air and water study and found high levels…
Though largely overlooked, tapping into employees’ emotions and personal values can produce powerful triggers for calling out wrongdoing in the workplace, from…
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