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Released: 22-Feb-2018 12:05 PM EST
Age Matters Behind the Wheel – but Not How You Might Expect
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A UCLA study explored the relationship between new drivers' skills to age, gender and playing organized sports or video games. The results suggest all novice drivers should undergo mandatory training, not just teenagers. Age: Among males, the older the student, the worse his driving skills score.

   
Released: 20-Feb-2018 5:00 AM EST
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Researchers Find “Park Prescriptions” Can Reduce Stress Among Low Income Patients
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

A study by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland researchers, has found that “park prescriptions” provided by physicians to their low-income patients can help reduce stress and improve physical well-being in patients and their families.

14-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Study Finds Opportunity to Increase Opioid Dependence Treatment in Ontario Jails
McMaster University

The study included completion of an online survey by 27 physicians, who reported working in 15 of 26 provincial correctional facilities for adults in Ontario. This included 10 of the 13 facilities with a population of more than 200. The study identified that about half of the physicians prescribed methadone and half prescribed buprenorphine/naloxone to treat opioid dependence.

Released: 14-Feb-2018 2:05 PM EST
Clean Plates Much More Common When We Eat at Home
Ohio State University

When people eat at home, there’s typically not much left on their plates – and that means there’s likely less going to landfills, according to new research from The Ohio State University.

Released: 13-Feb-2018 4:00 PM EST
Brain Imaging Helps Redefine Intelligence
NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone study offers the first solid evidence that functional MRI scans of brain entropy are a new means to understanding human intelligence.

8-Feb-2018 12:00 PM EST
Bed Bug Histamines Are Substantial, Persistent in Infested Homes
North Carolina State University

Nuisance pest into medically important threat? A North Carolina State University study shows that histamine levels are substantially higher in homes infested by bed bugs than in pest-free homes, and that these histamine levels persist for months – even if the bed bugs have been eliminated from the home.

Released: 9-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Researchers Compare Pollution Levels Before And After Hurricane Harvey
Texas A&M University

Although understanding the wide-ranging effects of disasters is vital for an effective public health response, a lack of baseline data has made it difficult to attribute post-disaster changes in environmental conditions to the impacts of disasters.

Released: 7-Feb-2018 12:30 PM EST
Who’s Your Daddy? Good News for Threatened Sea Turtles
Florida Atlantic University

A groundbreaking study of sea turtle nests and hatchlings using paternity tests to uncover “who are your daddies?” is the first to document multiple paternity in loggerhead sea turtle nests in southwest Florida. What started out as a study on female sea turtle promiscuity is proving to be very good news for this female-biased species facing rising risks of extinction due to climate change.

Released: 6-Feb-2018 3:05 PM EST
Matchmaking for Cancer Care
University of Delaware

Computer scientists from the University of Delaware and Georgetown University have developed a new system to rapidly determine which cancer drugs are likely to work best given genetic markers for a patent – the first publicly available system of its kind.

Released: 1-Feb-2018 9:05 AM EST
Research Uncovers Gene Network That Regulates Motor Neuron Formation During Embryonic Development
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

UCLA researchers have discovered the inner workings of a gene network that regulates the development of spinal motor neurons in the growing chicken and mouse embryo. The research also answers a long-standing question about why motor neurons, the nerve cells of the spinal cord that control muscle movement, form much faster than other types of neurons.

Released: 30-Jan-2018 11:05 AM EST
Urban Foxes and Coyotes Learn to Set Aside Their Differences and Coexist
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Diverging from centuries of established behavioral norms, red fox and coyote have gone against their wild instincts and learned to coexist in the urban environment of Madison and the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, according to a recently published study in the journal PLOS One.

Released: 29-Jan-2018 2:05 PM EST
Plotting the Path of Plant Pathogens
Washington University in St. Louis

In a sneak attack, some pathogenic microbes manipulate plant hormones to gain access to their hosts undetected. Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have exposed one such interloper by characterizing the unique biochemical pathway it uses to synthesize auxin, a central hormone in plant development.In a paper published in the Jan.

Released: 22-Jan-2018 11:05 AM EST
Microbiome Predicts Blood Infections in Pediatric Cancer Patients
University of Colorado Cancer Center

Patients who developed bloodstream infections had significantly reduced microbiome diversity than patients who remained free of infection.

Released: 22-Jan-2018 10:05 AM EST
How Climate Change Weakens Coral ‘Immune Systems’
Ohio State University

Researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have demonstrated how rising temperatures and acidification combine to destabilize different populations of coral microbes—that is, unbalance the natural coral “microbiome."

   
Released: 22-Jan-2018 8:00 AM EST
Finding Unravels Nature of Cognitive Inflexibility in Fragile X Syndrome
New York University

Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists.

Released: 19-Jan-2018 2:05 PM EST
Cystic Fibrosis Bacterial Burden Begins During First Years of Life
University of North Carolina Health Care System

CF researchers have now shown that the lungs’ bacterial population changes in the first few years of life as respiratory infections and inflammation set in. This research offers a way to predict the onset of lung disease and suggests a larger role for preventive therapies, such as hypertonic saline.

18-Jan-2018 11:10 AM EST
Can Mice Really Mirror Humans When It Comes to Cancer?
Michigan State University

A new Michigan State University study is helping to answer a pressing question among scientists of just how close mice are to people when it comes to researching cancer.

Released: 16-Jan-2018 12:05 PM EST
University of Arkansas Scientists Digitally Preserve Important Arkansas Dinosaur Tracks
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

University of Arkansas researchers used LiDAR imaging to digitally preserve and study important dinosaur tracks.

Released: 16-Jan-2018 8:00 AM EST
Researchers Offer New Model for Uncovering True HIV Mortality Rates in Zambia
Johns Hopkins Medicine

A new study that seeks to ascertain HIV mortality rates in Zambia could provide a model for improved national and regional surveillance approaches and, ultimately, more effective HIV treatment strategies.

11-Jan-2018 12:05 PM EST
Researchers Offer New Model for Uncovering True HIV Mortality Rates in Zambia
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A new study that seeks to better ascertain HIV mortality rates in Zambia could provide a model for improved national and regional surveillance approaches, and ultimately, more effective HIV treatment strategies.



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