Positional sleep therapy during pregnancy may promote maternal and fetal health A new study suggests that an intervention to reduce supine sleep in late pregnancy may promote maternal and fetal health. Aug 31, 2018 0 0
Regulatory and effector B cells control scleroderma Systemic sclerosis (SSc, also known as scleroderma), a connective tissue disorder of autoimmune etiology, is characterized by excessive fibrosis in the skin and various internal organs. More than 90 percent of SSc patients ... Aug 31, 2018 0 19
Open-source AI tool for studying movement across behaviors and species Understanding the brain, in part, means understanding how behavior is created. Aug 31, 2018 0 7
It's 2018. Do you know where your medical records are? Can you imagine a future where the question "Did you bring a copy of your test results?" becomes entirely unnecessary? Aug 31, 2018 0 0
Liver disease drug could help restore cells damaged by Alzheimer's A drug which has been used to treat liver disease for decades could help to restore cells damaged by Alzheimer's, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found. Aug 31, 2018 0 635
Understanding how visual information guides behavior To understand more about how we respond to what we see around us, a team of scientists at NERF has zoomed in on the organization of neurons in the superior colliculus, a midbrain structure that mediates orientation responses ... Aug 31, 2018 0 19
Research digs up the fat-fighting power of clays Investigating how clay materials can improve drug delivery, UniSA researcher and Ph.D. candidate, Tahnee Dening serendipitously discovered that the clay materials she was using had a unique ability to "soak up" fat droplets ... Aug 31, 2018 5 45
Epidemic of poor mental health among low-paid workers Being lower on the pecking order at work is associated with having serious psychiatric problems, our latest research shows. We found that abusive managers negatively affect the emotional and psychological well-being of those ... Aug 31, 2018 0 2
Decomposing tears in order to detect dry eye disease By measuring proteins in tears, ophthalmologists can more easily diagnose dry eyes (dry eye disease). Peter Raus, a Belgian ophthalmologist and Ph.D. student at the Institute of Biology Leiden, developed a new method for ... Aug 31, 2018 0 0
Mammography screening also confers benefits on participants with interval cancer Participants in the German mammography screening program (MSP) who have invasive breast cancer—including interval cancers—can, on the whole, undergo more sparing surgical treatment compared with non-participants. This ... Aug 31, 2018 0 0
