Unhealthy alcohol use, the spectrum from risky consumption to alcohol use disorders, alcohol abuse and dependence, is prevalent but under-diagnosed in primary-care settings.
Mar 11, 2009
Polymorphisms are variations in genes which can result in changes in the way a particular gene functions and thus may be associated with susceptibility to common diseases.
Mar 10, 2009
Herd mentality. Angry mob. Mass hysteria. As these phrases suggest, we are not always confident that a large group of people will come up with the smartest decisions.
Mar 10, 2009
A doctoral thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that three genes that lie behind a number of malignant tumour diseases are normally involved in several fundamental processes in the cell.
Mar 10, 2009
Family nurse practitioners need to be more aware of the commercial pressures they face as a result of their increased involvement in prescribing, according to a survey published in the March issue of the UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Mar 10, 2009
CHICAGO (March 10, 2009) - New research published in the March issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggests that lung transplantation…
Mar 10, 2009
New York, NY--March 9, 2009--InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: INCR), today announced a new study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Human Hypertension.
Mar 9, 2009
Jerusalem, March 9, 2009 - An easily implementable technique to avoid reblockage of arteries that have been cleared through angioplasty and stent insertion has been developed by researchers led by Prof.
Mar 9, 2009
Fifteen-year-old males who ate fish at least once a week displayed higher cognitive skills at the age of 18 than those who it ate it less frequently, according to a study of nearly 4,000 teenagers published in the March issue of Acta Paediatrica.
Mar 9, 2009
The Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) in Xi'an, China-Research, has shown that the substantial undercooling of liquid state brings about novel microstructural transition for Al-Cu-Si ternary eutectic alloy.
Mar 9, 2009
Children of older fathers perform less well in a range of cognitive tests during infancy and early childhood, according to a study published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
Mar 9, 2009
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (March 9, 2009)--Freezing kidney tumors--using a safe minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment that kills the cancer 100 percent…
Mar 9, 2009
PITTSBURGH, March 8 - In a paper published in the early online version of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh…
Mar 8, 2009
The finding, based upon a decade of related research, shows that stem cells are influenced to increase divisions by this growth factor, which provides a…
Mar 6, 2009
