Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

MENA’s Resilience Amid International Financial Crisis

In contrast to other parts of the world, however, most MENA developing countries will able to get off lightly if the crisis does not last for too long. In…

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Lead-Based Paint: A Global Public Health Concern Revealed

In a new study, Scott Clark, PhD, and his team have found that approximately 73 percent of consumer paint brands tested from 12 countries representing 46…

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Workplace Yoga and Meditation Cut Stress: A Pilot Study

The study offered participants a modified version of what is known as mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a program established in 1979 to help hospital…

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Depression and Inflammation: Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. More than 1.3 million adults in the…

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Finding key to cancer drug Gleevec's limitations

University of Michigan researchers have developed an animal model that provides strong evidence why imatinib, marketed as Gleevec, helps patients with chronic…

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Hip and Back Fractures Linked to Higher Mortality in Seniors

The research, to be published August 4 in the online edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), has found that approximately 25 per cent of…

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Link Between Sleep Quality and Life Quality Decline

Adjusted models show that an increase in difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep was significantly associated with a change in Mental Component Summary…

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Lung Cancer Patients Benefit from Erlotinib After Cetuximab

Both cetuximab (Erbitux) and erlotinib (Tarceva) inhibit the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and the assumption has been that once a patient progresses…

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Exercise Benefits for Leukemia Patients: New Study Insights

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicates that exercise may be a great way to do just that, combating the debilitating fatigue…

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Cosmic Dance: How Galaxies Shed Weight and Dark Matter

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are small and very faint, containing few stars relative to their total mass. They appear to be made mostly of dark matter – a…

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Macaques Show Resilience Against Chronic Wasting Disease

The results to date show that 14 cynomolgus macaques exposed orally or intracerebrally to CWD remain healthy and symptom free after more than six years of…

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Wildfires Projected to Surge 50% by 2050 in Key Regions

The study predicts that the worst affected areas will be the forests in the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains, where the area of forest destroyed by…

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Freshwater Fish Evolution: Largemouth Bass Adaptations Explored

For avid fishermen and anglers, the largemouth bass is a favorite freshwater fish with an appetite for minnows. A new study finds that once they evolved to eat…

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Bizarre Walking Bat Reveals Surprising Ancient Heritage

The discovery overturns a long-held held view that the agile walking and climbing skills of the lesser short-tailed bat – Mystacina tuberculata – evolved in…

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Forest Response Project: FACE Experiment on Sweetgum Trees

With the Department of Energy-sponsored free air carbon dioxide enrichment experiment, known as FACE, three plots of sweetgum trees were the control sites and…

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Kids and Family Homelessness: New Study Reveals Alarming Rates

A new multisite study by UCLA and RAND Corp. researchers and colleagues has found that 7 percent of fifth-graders and their families have experienced…

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