JUPITER, FL, November 9, 2010 -- For Immediate Release -- Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have identified for the first…
Nov 11, 2010
After four years of conducting intensive calculations in the supercomputer MareNostrum at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, scientists headed by Modesto…
Nov 11, 2010
The laboratory of Huda Zoghbi, where the discovery that mutations in the gene MECP2 cause the severe childhood neurological disorder Rett Syndrome was made…
Nov 11, 2010
Bethesda, MD -- An original and progressive report on health information technology (HIT) vendors, their customers and patients, published online today, makes…
Nov 11, 2010
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 10, 2010) -- New research released today takes a look at birth outcomes and maternal smoking, building urgency for more states and cities to join the nationwide smoke-free trend that has accelerated in recent years.
Nov 10, 2010
Despite lack of evidence about bed rest's effectiveness, doctors annually prescribe it for roughly 1 million pregnant women to delay preterm births.
Nov 10, 2010
PASADENA, Calif. -- The eerie music in the movie theater swells; the roller coaster crests and begins its descent; something goes bump in the night.
Nov 10, 2010
DALLAS -- Nov. 11, 2010 -- New findings by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center suggest that serotonin -- a brain chemical known to help regulate emotion, mood and sleep -- might also have anti-diabetic properties.
Nov 10, 2010
Gone are the days when a doctor's only way of helping patients is by treating the disease after symptoms have started.
Nov 10, 2010
Many aspects of the German Genetic Diagnostics Act (Gendiagnostikgesetz) are out of touch with the latest technology, almost impossible to implement in…
Nov 10, 2010
Evidence suggesting that the risk of childhood asthma associated with prenatal paracetamol exposure may depend on antioxidant genes in the mother has been found by a team of UK scientists.
Nov 10, 2010
A multi-tiered effort designed to stem binge drinking at a large university and to change the drinking culture among its students produced notable results during the 2.5 years of an Indiana University study.
Nov 9, 2010
DALLAS -- Nov. 9, 2010 -- A hormone already responsible for increasing blood pressure by prompting the kidneys to retain salt appears to moonlight as a major stimulator of the brain centers that control the vascular system and blood pressure.
Nov 9, 2010
New Rochelle, NY, November 9, 2010 -- The link between maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) may relate to the…
Nov 9, 2010
