Archive: 05/12/2014

How are CTE and behavior linked?

Aggression, violence, depression, suicide. Media reports routinely link these behavioral symptoms with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the neurodegenerative brain disease, in former football players.

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Military culture enables tobacco use

Military culture perpetuates the notion that using tobacco provides stress relief, a new study in the American Journal of Health Promotion finds. But other stress relievers, such as exercise or taking meditation breaks, could ...

Dec 5, 2014

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Women and men influence sensitivity in workplace teams

Remember the coworker who seemed really tuned in to your ideas about the project?

Dec 5, 2014

Older cancer patients missing out on surgery

Older people are less likely to have cancer surgery compared to younger people according to new data published today (Friday).

Dec 5, 2014

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You can still think deeply in the digital age

Two people walk into a seminar: one takes photos, video and an audio recording of the presentation, while the other takes hand-written notes. Which person do you think will better recall the information?

Dec 5, 2014

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Scientist finds drug combination that stops growth of breast cancer cells

Dalhousie Medical School's Dr. Paola Marignani and her team have successfully tested a combination of drugs that shuts down aggressive, metabolically active HER2-positive breast cancers.

Dec 5, 2014

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Smartband alerts parents to a wandering child's location before they get lost

Losing a child in a crowded public place is one of the worst feelings a parent can have. For BYU MBA student Spencer Behrend, it was the catalyst for an ambitious device.

Dec 5, 2014

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Neutrophils found to receive directions from platelets

(Medical Xpress)—A team filled with researchers from across the globe has found that white blood cells known as neutrophils (which are a vital part of causing inflammation to occur) receive messages from platelets offering ...

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New effort underway to help people living with epilepsy

The Interoperability and Integration Innovation Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology (I3L) and UCB, a global biopharmaceutical company, announced today a new collaboration to explore how predictive analytics can help ...

Dec 5, 2014

Genetic errors linked to more ALS cases than scientists had thought

Genetic mutations may cause more cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) than scientists previously had realized, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Cedars-Sinai Medical ...

Dec 5, 2014

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