Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Cancer Cells Spread Through Bubble-Like Vesicles

The cancer cells are able to communicate with their more healthy counter-parts by releasing vesicles. These bubble-like structures contain cancer-causing…

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MIT Study Confirms Improved Hurricane Prediction Accuracy

Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms…

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Antioxidant users don't live longer, analysis of studies concludes

The reviewers want more regulation of the nutraceuticals industry, but an antioxidant researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that call for…

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Atrazine Exposure Harms Tadpole Development: New Study Insights

Tadpoles develop deformed hearts and impaired kidneys and digestive systems when exposed to the widely used herbicide atrazine in their early stages of life,…

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Study Reveals Fragmentation of TV News Audiences by Partisanship

“Ideology and partisanship used to be completely unrelated to the television news people consumed,” said study author Barry Hollander, associate professor of…

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Older people are nation's happiest

Americans grow happier as they grow older, according to a University of Chicago study that is one of the most thorough examinations of happiness ever done in…

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Fishing Throws Targeted Species Off Balance, Study Reveals

Research led at Scripps with a distinguished team of government and international experts (including two chief scientific advisors to the United Kingdom)…

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Exploring TextImi: Insights into Internet User Emotions

Development of TextImi, a Text Semantic Space Analysis System:- Thoughts and feelings of those who read from the Internet -FUKAYA, Masahiro. ProfessorFaculty…

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Getting a good night’s sleep is the biggest problem for women entering the menopause

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, USA, spoke to 110 women entering the menopause – when periods can become lighter or heavier and…

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New Study: Aromatase Inhibitors Safe for Heart Health

In a study presented today (Thursday) at the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-6) in Berlin, the researcher, Dr Alain Monnier, said that this was…

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Intelligence Linked to Rhythmic Accuracy, Study Finds

Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University have now demonstrated a correlation between general intelligence and the…

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Medication Boosts Driving Skills in ADHD Patients

People with ADHD are often prescribed methylphenidate (brand name Ritalin) to counteract hyperactive behavior and attention dysfunction that may negatively…

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New Research on Menstrual Disorders in Elite Athletes

However, a new doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet overturns old ideas that elite sport can damage the health. Many elite…

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UAB Study: Triphendiol Drug May Combat Biliary Cancers

Laboratory studies by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers have shown that the drug triphendiol (NV-196) causes cell death in pancreatic and…

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Creatinine Rise in Elderly Linked to Renal Disease Risk

Even small increases in serum creatinine levels during hospitalization raise the risk of end stage renal disease and mortality of elderly patients over the…

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Flu Vaccines Cut Respiratory Issues in COPD Patients by 75%

A study of 87 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – a major cause of ill health and death – found that having the annual flu vaccine…

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