Doctors define ‘safe and effective’ margins for ‘one and done’ skin removal around suspicious moles
By carefully tracing a line of at least 2 millimeters outside of and around the edges of a mole that ...
Month: October 2017
Our muscles measure the time of day
Biological clocks are ticking everywhere throughout our body. They trigger the release of the hormone melatonin during sleep, favour the ...
If your child is bilingual, learning additional languages later might be easier
WASHINGTON -- It is often claimed that people who are bilingual are better than monolinguals at learning languages. Now, the ...
Financial incentives for physicians did not increase follow-up of patients after discharge
A financial incentive for physicians to see patients sooner after discharge from hospital did not appear to influence physician behaviour, ...
Liquid biopsies may help predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors
Bottom Line: The number of alterations detected in the DNA collected from blood samples (liquid biopsies) of cancer patients treated ...
DNA mutations shed in blood predicts response to immunotherapy in patients with cancer
In a first-of-its-kind study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that a blood sample, or liquid ...
Physician licensing laws keep doctors from seeking care
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Despite growing problems with psychological distress, many physicians avoid seeking mental health treatment due to concern for ...
Adulteration of proprietary Chinese medicines & health products poses severe health risks
Traditional Chinese medicine is widely used as a form of complementary medicine all over the world for various indications and ...
Text messaging program may help pregnant women kick the smoking habit
WASHINGTON, DC (Oct. 2, 2017) -- An intensive text messaging program provides some pregnant women help in fighting the urge ...
Feeling sated can become a cue to eat more
When hunger pangs strike, we usually interpret them as a cue to reach for a snack; when we start to ...
By decoding how HPV causes cancer, researchers find a new potential treatment strategy
WASHINGTON -- A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what ...
A sea of spinning electrons
Credit: Hsiang-Hsi (Sean) Kung/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Picture two schools of fish swimming in clockwise and counterclockwise circles. It's enough to ...
UTSA receives $200,000 grant for cancer drug research
Doug Frantz, the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Distinguished Professor in Chemistry at The University of Texas at San Antonio ...
US Department of Energy awards Danforth Center $16M to enhance sorghum for bioenergy
Credit: NA ST. LOUIS, MO, Oct. 2, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest ...
Win-win strategies for climate and food security
Credit: Frank et al., 2017 Climate policies that target agriculture and forests could lead to increased food prices, but reducing ...
‘Revolutionary’ new gesture control tech turns any object into a TV remote
Credit: Lancaster University Imagine changing the channel of your TV simply by moving your cup of tea, adjusting the volume ...
Meet the hominin species that gave us genital herpes
Credit: Louise Walsh Two herpes simplex viruses infect primates from unknown evolutionary depths. In modern humans these viruses manifest as ...
Ben-Gurion U. developing new sensor with the Ram Group for earlier disease diagnosis
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Oct. 2, 2017 -- BGN, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), is collaborating with ...
Tobacco smokers could gain 86 million years of life if they switch to vaping, study finds
WASHINGTON -- Up to 6.6 million cigarette smokers will live substantially longer if cigarette smoking is replaced by vaping over ...
Unexpected findings uncover new understanding of gene expression
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that the catalytic activity of the fly enzyme Trr and mammalian MLL3/MLL4 -- members of ...
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Multiple sclerosis more prevalent in Black Americans than previously thought
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UTHSC researchers’ work on human pangenome aids understanding of common chromosomal abnormality
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Weather anomalies are keeping insects active longer
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American Indian and Alaska native men less likely to receive prostate cancer screening
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Whales not to be counted on as ‘climate savers’: study
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University of Sydney launches innovative research fellowship scheme to tackle global challenges