Studies and Analyses

Studies and Analyses

Study provides insights on protecting world's poor from climate change

Climate change is already putting pressure on fishers who depend on nature for their livelihoods. In a new study, scientists found large differences in the…

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Obesity and Occasional Migraines: New Research Insights

“Previous studies have shown a link between people with chronic migraine and obesity, but the research has been conflicting on whether that link existed for…

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Chest Pain Duration Can Signal Heart Attack

The study is published in the September issue of Critical Pathways in Cardiology.Every year, eight to 10 million people in the U.S. go to emergency departments…

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Innovative 'pay for performance' program improves patient outcomes

Paying doctors for how they perform specific medical procedures and examinations yields better health outcomes than the traditional “fee for service” model,…

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Medicaid Funds Nearly Half of U.S. Births: Key Insights

The new data will help researchers gauge the impact of health reform on maternal and child health, the authors say. Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), some…

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Researchers link obesity and the body's production of fructose

In recent years the role of added sweeteners, such as high fructose corn syrup and table sugar (sucrose), has taken center stage as risk factors for obesity…

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Preeclampsia Study: Immune Factors Influence Pregnancy Risks

A study of how two immune system-related factors – one genetic and one sexual – combine to affect risk could yield strategies for planning pregnancies with…

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New Avian Flu Strain H7N9 Shows Potential Threat to Humans

A new study has found that a novel avian-origin H7N9 influenza A virus, which has recently emerged in humans, attaches moderately or abundantly to the…

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Mastering In-House Data Search: Strategies for Success

Many companies still find it a challenge to search systematically for in-house data wherever they might be stored – and to actually find them. Enterprise…

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Therapy Slows Onset and Progression of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Study Finds

The researchers, led by teams from The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Ludwig Institute at the University of California, San…

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Butterfly Wings Inspire Innovative Technologies Across Industries

Now research by the University of Exeter, in collaboration with General Electric (GE) Global Research Centre, University at Albany and Air Force Research…

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Climate Change’s Impact on West Nile Virus Spread

University of Arizona researchers Cory Morin and Andrew Comrie developed a climate-driven mosquito population model to simulate the abundance across the…

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Weight Loss in Obese Teens Linked to Eating Disorders

Obese teenagers who lose weight are at risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, Mayo Clinic researchers imply in a…

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Synthetic mRNA Boosts Heart Repair and Cell Regeneration

The study, published in Nature Biotechnology, also shows that there was an effect on driving the formation of a small number of new cardiac muscle cells. “This…

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Effective MERS-CoV Treatment in Monkeys: NIH Study Insights

Their study, which appears as a letter in the Sept. 8 edition of Nature Medicine, expands on work published in April showing that a combination of ribavirin…

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E-Cigarettes vs. Nicotine Patches: First Trial Results

Barcelona, Spain: First trial to compare e-cigarettes with nicotine patches shows comparable success in helping smokers to quit.The first ever trial to compare…

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