CHICAGO (January 6, 2011) -- According to a report published in the December issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, surgery residents…
Jan 6, 2011
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- -- Calling the results "extremely surprising," researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Texas A&M…
Jan 6, 2011
As the day draws nearer for the world to run out of the unique addresses that allow us to use the Internet -- now predicted to happen by the end of 2012 --…
Jan 6, 2011
Mount Sinai researchers coordinating the largest clinical study to date of "Sarcoid Like" Granulomatous Pulmonary Disease in World Trade Center (WTC)…
Jan 6, 2011
INDIANAPOLIS -- A simpler form of testing individuals with risk factors for diabetes could improve diabetes prevention efforts by substantially increasing the…
Jan 6, 2011
Boston, MA -- The deaths of 1.8 million female infants and children in India over the past 20 years are related to domestic violence against their mothers…
Jan 5, 2011
PHILADELPHIA -- Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are characterized by protein clumps…
Jan 5, 2011
A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine has developed the first web-based screening tool for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). This instrument has…
Jan 5, 2011
With the demand for organically produced food increasing, scientists are reporting new evidence that organically grown onions, carrots, and potatoes generally…
Jan 5, 2011
Using a thermostatic mixer valve to control the maximum temperature of children's bath water can significantly reduce the temperature of hot bath water and should reduce the risk of scalding, according to researchers at The University of Nottingham.
Jan 5, 2011
Medical experts have issued a warning about the common practice of tablet splitting, after a study found that nearly a third of the split fragments deviated from recommended dosages by 15 per cent or more.
Jan 5, 2011
A stack of punch cards from a landmark study published in 1966, and the legwork to track down the study's participants years later, has yielded the longest analysis of the effects of lipoproteins on coronary heart disease.
Jan 5, 2011
10-Dec 2010 What happens when galaxies crash together? For years, these cosmic collisions have been blamed for triggering violent outbursts at the hearts of galaxies.
Jan 5, 2011
In the first-ever quantification of energy expended by humans during sleep, a University of Colorado team has found that the metabolic cost of an adult missing one night of sleep is the equivalent of walking slightly less than two miles.
Jan 4, 2011
