Archive: 30/11/2016

Need for best practice guidelines for counseling women who relinquish their parental rights

A new study by The University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work and The Donaldson Adoption Institute provides groundbreaking research on the experiences of first/birth parents and the need for best practices guidelines ...

Nov 30, 2016

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Opinion: Good food policies – it's time we all got involved to get what we want

I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't notice. In the furore of Trumpagedon, a little publicised revolution was taking place in America: five cities in the US voted for sugary drinks taxes.

Nov 30, 2016

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Groundbreaking technique helping to pave the way for advances in personalized medicine

Imagine, one day in the future, you go into the pharmacy with a prescription from your doctor, you swipe your health card and a robot in the back provides you with the exact drug composition that will work for your body. ...

Nov 30, 2016

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Where Latino teens learn about sex does matter

The U.S. teen pregnancy rate is at a historic low, with the number of teen births declining dramatically over the past decades.

Nov 30, 2016

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Student startup plans to offer app that can detect concussions

Brightlamp LLC, a Purdue student-based startup, is working to become the first company to offer a downloadable app for public use that can detect concussions in real time.

Nov 30, 2016

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When and why do children give others the bigger piece of the pie?

In one episode of Sesame Street, Ernie takes a bigger piece of pie for himself and gives a smaller piece to Bert. Bert responds, "That is not very polite. I mean, if I had two pieces of pie, I'd offer you the big piece and ...

Nov 30, 2016

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Gram-negative bacteria may influence Alzheimer's disease pathology

For the first time, researchers have found higher levels of Gram-negative bacteria antigens in brain samples from late-onset Alzheimer's disease patients. Compared to controls, patients with Alzheimer's had much higher levels ...

Nov 30, 2016

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Zika in fetal brain tissue responds to a popular antibiotic

Working in the lab, UC San Francisco researchers have identified fetal brain tissue cells that are targeted by the Zika virus and determined that azithromycin, a common antibiotic regarded as safe for use during pregnancy, ...

Nov 30, 2016

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Research suggests new possibility for treating aggressive ovarian cancer

A recent discovery by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) may lead to a new treatment strategy for an aggressive ovarian cancer subtype.

Nov 30, 2016

Untangling fibril formation and dissociation in Parkinson's disease

Prions are misfolded proteins. The complex three-dimensional structure of a prion's progenitor protein becomes altered, somehow causing it to malfunction. Worse, the malformation of these progenitor proteins into prions causes ...

Nov 30, 2016

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