The nation's sickest and most expensive patients need fewer health care resources and cost insurers less when they are closely supported by a nurse-physician…
Aug 6, 2009
New York, NY, August 6, 2009 -- In findings that add to the prospects of regenerating insulin-producing cells in people with type 1 diabetes, researchers in…
Aug 6, 2009
Psychosocial therapy combined with medication can effectively improve depression and recovery in stroke patients, according to a new study reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Aug 6, 2009
PHILADELPHIA - Fibrin, the chief ingredient of blood clots, is a remarkably versatile polymer.
Aug 6, 2009
PASADENA, Calif. -- A previously unrecognized player in the process by which gases produced by trees and other plants become aerosols -- microscopically small…
Aug 6, 2009
LA JOLLA, CA -- August 5, 2009 ?As letters of the alphabet spell out words, when amino acids are linked to one another in a particular order they "spell out" proteins.
Aug 6, 2009
Peering into the DNA of tiny yeast, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Branch of the Ludwig…
Aug 6, 2009
Scientists have shown that they can identify and characterize an individual's response to a respiratory viral infection by examining the pattern of gene expression in their blood.
Aug 6, 2009
New research reveals that a simple laboratory assay detects a genetic variation in host response to bacterial infection that is associated with an increased susceptibility for inflammatory disease.
Aug 6, 2009
PHILADELPHIA -- (August 6, 2009) -- A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute has identified a protein that could serve as a target for reprogramming…
Aug 6, 2009
STANFORD, Calif. -- Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered, for the first time, a common molecular pathway that is used by both normal stem cells and cancer stem cells when they reproduce themselves.
Aug 6, 2009
The burning of fossil fuels has released tremendous amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, significantly impacting global climate.
Aug 6, 2009
Geoengineering techniques aim to slow global warming through the use of human-made changes to the Earth's land, seas or atmosphere.
Aug 5, 2009
New York, NY, August 6, 2009 -- Comprehensive health reform proposals now before Congress could help the more than 13 million uninsured young adults ages 19-29…
Aug 5, 2009
