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...
Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers
Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective...
US and European experts applaud new transatlantic task force on antibiotic resistance threat
Experts on both sides of the Atlantic applaud President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the European Union (EU) Presidency, for establishing a transatlantic task force to...
Does prostate-specific antigen velocity help in early detection prostate cancer?
The November issue of European Urology, the official journal
of the European Association of Urology, features an article
focussing on prostate specific antigen (PSA) velocity and early
cancer detection. It...
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...
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...
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...
Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and...
DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden have now demonstrated that plasmid-based...
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...
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...
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 about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution.
Ants are friendly to some trees, but not others
Tree-dwelling ants generally live in harmony with their arboreal hosts. But new research suggests that when they run out of space in their trees of choice, the ants can get...
PET imaging response a prognostic factor after thoracic radiation therapy for lung cancer
(PHILADELPHIA) A rapid decline in metabolic activity on a PET scan after radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer is correlated with good local tumor control, according to a study...
Local health investigation sheds light on gastroschisis birth defect
Results of an investigation conducted by University of Nevada, Reno researchers, public health officials and area physicians published this week in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, indicate that...
'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...
Less than 1 in 3 Toronto bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest try to help: Study
Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can quadruple the survival...
Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life, study shows
As the climate gets warmer, arid soils lose nitrogen as gas, reports a new Cornell study. That could lead to deserts with even less plant life than they sustain...
Poll: Many parents, high-priority adults who tried to get H1N1 vaccine unable to get it
A new national poll from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that a majority of adults who tried to get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves or their children...
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...
A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements
This press release is available in French and
Perfectly proportioned
This press release is available in
More latest science news
Latest News in Images
Latest science news from the newsfeed
- West African Giraffes Defy Extinction
- Admitting mistakes reduces errors: Montreal hospital
- Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises
- Australian agency denies gagging researchers
- Planting trees can shift water flow
- Jeremy Morris, Proved Exercise Is Heart-Healthy, Dies at 99 ½
- Judge orders US music website to drop Beatles songs
- Aussie Birds Shrinking, Heading Poleward
- Obama Announces Endorsements for Health Plan
- Dinosaur prints found on NZealand's South Island
- Prized mushroom collection returns to China
- Success in 'space elevator' competition
- Russian rocket to launch from French Guiana in 2010
- Brazil blackouts result of cyber hacking: report
- Microsoft websites top spots in September: comScore
- Island village hit by suspected swine flu
- NASA spacecraft views more of Mercury
- A Tale of Planetary Woe
- Malaria vaccine strategy aims for eradication
- In Taiwan, an effort to bring back witches
- A Rotation With Translation Movement Is A Standalone Natural Phenomenon
- New study may deal final blow to acne drug Accutane
- Flu fears overwhelm B.C. hospital
- 2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked
- PICTURES: 2012 Doomsday Myths Debunked