Higher carotid arterial stenting rates associated with poorer clinical outcomes
Among eligible Medicare beneficiaries, increased use of carotid arterial stenting (CAS) procedures to treat carotid stenosis—the narrowing of the carotid artery—is associated with higher rates of mortality and adverse clinical outcomes, including heart attack and stroke, according to researchers from...
Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star
An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one...
Computer predicts reactions between molecules and surfaces, with ‘chemical precision’
Good news for heterogeneous catalysis and the hydrogen economy: computers can now be used to make accurate predictions of the reactions of (hydrogen) molecules with surfaces. An international team of...
New finding suggests prostate biopsy is not always necessary
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that some elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men may be caused by a hormone...
First use of antibody and stem cell transplantation to successfully treat advanced leukemia
For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell...
Are the Alps growing or shrinking?
The Alps are growing just as quickly in height, as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result could be proven by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers...
'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies
Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies
from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22
early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by...
Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease
A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new
therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to
researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of...
The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula
Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs,
the so-called 'duck-billed' dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for
the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind...
SNM applauds House action to build medical isotopes reactor in the US
SNM applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276—the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009.
A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements
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1930s drug slows tumor growth
Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of...
Gene therapy technique slows brain disease
A strategy that combines gene therapy with blood stem cell therapy
may be a useful tool for treating a fatal brain disease, French
researchers have found. These findings appear in...
Magnetic nanoparticles to simultaneously diagnose, monitor and treat
Whether it's magnetic nanoparticles (mNPs) giving an army of 'therapeutically armed' white blood cells direction to invade a deadly tumour's territory, or the use of mNPs to target specific nerve...
Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate
The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a
reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland
Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000...
Air pollution increases infants' risk of bronchiolitis
Infants who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution are at increased risk for bronchiolitis, according to a new study.
Dartmouth professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked
Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally...
Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease
A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their...
Psychiatric impact of torture could be amplified by head injury
Depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences may be exacerbated by the effects of head injuries, according to a study from the Harvard Program...
We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information
People would be willing to pay more for products that carry
detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light
items. Thus it has been confirmed by researchers from the University...
AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access
To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articles...
Kidney function decline increases risk of heart failure and premature death
Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart
failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death
in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a...
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