Nuts pack a nutritional (and brainy) punch, researchers say Children aged 8-13 years are being sought for a University of South Australia study to test whether nuts can improve their cognitive ability. Jun 22, 2018 0 4
Urgent call for prevention strategies for sleep-related infant deaths Dr. Kyran Quinlan and colleagues at Rush issue an urgent call for prevention strategies for sleep-related infant deaths in his viewpoint, "Protecting Infants From Sleep-Related Deaths" published in the June 18 online issue ... Jun 22, 2018 1 21
Kidney cells engineered to produce insulin when caffeine is present in the body A team of researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Basel in Switzerland and Institut Universitaire de Technologie in France has that found that embryonic kidney cells engineered to produce insulin when exposed to ... Jun 22, 2018 report 0 1361
How mega-mansions increase risks of heart disease and diabetes Farmland is disappearing in many provinces across Canada. According to Larry Davis of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, 350 acres of farmland are now lost per day in Ontario alone to non-agricultural uses such as luxury ... Jun 22, 2018 0 2
Sex and gender both shape your health, in different ways When you think about gender, what comes to mind? Is it anatomy or the way someone dresses or acts? Do you think of gender as binary —male or female? Do you think it predicts sexual orientation? Jun 22, 2018 0 3
Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumour biopsies Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using a novel device developed by EMBL scientists. The research, reported in Nature Communications on June 22, marks the latest advancement in ... Jun 22, 2018 0 4
Diaphragm linked to chronic low back pain, study shows Researchers of the Physical Therapy and Medicine departments of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University recently published a study on patients with chronic, non-specific low back pain, in which they conducted the first clinical ... Jun 22, 2018 0 28
Brain cortex neural reservoir analysed A recent study headed by Dr. Juan Nácher of Valencia University has shed light on a new function of neural plasticity and confirms the presence of a 'reservoir' of neurons that are added to the networks during adult life ... Jun 22, 2018 0 4
Watching stem cells repair spinal cord in real time Monash University researchers have restored movement and regenerated nerves using stem cells in zebra fish where the spinal cord is severely damaged. Jun 22, 2018 0 1301
Rapid declines in child and maternal mortality in Rwanda, Madagascar share common roots Deaths of children under 5 have dropped by nearly 20 percent in just two years in a poor, rural district in Madagascar—despite the island nation having the lowest health-spending level in the world. This transformation ... Jun 22, 2018 0 0
