Children exposed to cigarette smoke at home have lower levels of an enzyme that helps them respond to asthma treatment, a study has found. Passive smoking is known to worsen asthma symptoms in children and impair their response to inhaled ...
Tags: Health, cigarette smoke, cigarette
U.K. based Oxford Nanopore Technologies has made good on a promise made two years ago to produce an inexpensive genome sequencer that is based on nanopore technology. David Jaffe, with the Broad Institute reported to an audience at the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Why does a mouse's heart beat about the same number of times in its lifetime as an elephant's, although the mouse lives about a year, while an elephant sees 70 winters come and go? Why do small plants and animals mature faster than large ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
People can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food, according to new findings from research centre on human senses the Monell Centre (Monell). Researchers said innovative methods using odour to make low-fat foods more ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Study finds improvements in survival largely reflect gains among non-elderly whites and Asians While new and better treatments have improved the odds of survival for patients diagnosed late stage colorectal cancer, that progress has been ...
Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electronic device that would capitalize on the ability of graphene to carry electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature – a property ...
A new bioactive molecule from the Centella asiatica plant has been discovered by researchers at Sederma's Instituto di Ricerche Biotecnologiche (IRB). The molecule, 4-malonil-3,5- dicaffeoylquinic acid (known as irbic acid), has always ...
Tags: bioactive molecule, new technology
From birth, infants naturally show a preference for human contact and interaction, including faces and voices. These basic predispositions to social stimuli are altered in individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A new ...
A new international multi-center study led by researchers from UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is the first to evaluate whether purified cannabinoid is effective in treating severe forms of childhood epilepsy that do not respond to ...
In the first national look at how broadly web-based technologies are being used to provide health care, a University of Michigan researcher has found that 42 percent of U.S. hospitals use some type of "telehealth" approach. The study, ...
Tags: telehealth, congestive heart failure telemonitoring study
A new assessment tool published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine can help hospital medicine groups across the country improve their patient care and make their operations more effective. Published as "The Key Principles and ...
Tags: HEALTHCARE
Although the field of science keeps advancing, it may be the simple telephone that helps save more lives. Anita Kinney, Professor of Medicine and Associate Director for Population Sciences at the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, and ...
Tags: HEALTHCARE
Researchers consider infant mortality to be a key indicator of population health. Currently, the United States ranks 27th among industrialized nations in infant mortality, but rates within the U.S. vary significantly by race, socioeconomic ...
Tags: Infant, healthcare
The first comprehensive, large-scale cohort study of the long-term survival of children treated for low-grade gliomas, the most common pediatric brain tumor, finds that almost 90 percent are alive 20 years later and that few die from the ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
(Phys.org) —A team of researches with members from several European countries has concluded that it would be far more cost effective for most coastal area economies to employ flood prevention strategies rather than simply pay to clean ...
Tags: Flood Protection