News tagged with experimental
Metabolic syndrome risk factors drive significantly higher health care costs
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Risk factors for metabolic syndrome, such as obesity, high blood pressure, and elevated blood lipid levels, can increase a person's healthcare costs nearly 1.6-fold, or about $2,000 per year. For each additional risk factor ...
Weeding out marijuana: Researchers close in on engineering recognizable, drug-free Cannabis plant
Sep 15, 2009 |
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In a first step toward engineering a drug-free Cannabis plant for hemp fiber and oil, University of Minnesota researchers have identified genes producing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive substance in marijuana. ...
Picking quality health care: New study shows a little context makes a big difference
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A hospital pneumonia survival rate of 93 percent may sound good, but knowing that it's actually merely "fair" can help people pick a better hospital, according to new research. A "good" survival rate would be from 95 percent ...
Don't stand by me: When involving an interested party may not be in your best interest
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 10, 2009 |
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When business leaders leave organizations following poor decisions, constituents often find comfort in replacing them with insiders - others familiar with the problem and original choices. But, new research shows that such ...
Finding of genetic region controlling cardiovascular sensitivity to anesthetic propofol
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have identified the genetic region in rats responsible for cardiovascular collapse during anesthesia. While it is well known that people have different cardiovascular ...
Study: Men Losing Their Minds Over Women
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Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research reported in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has shown that men go ga-ga over pretty women. They simply lose their minds (while women keep theirs).
Study casts new light on research of controversial scientist Paul Kammerer
Sep 03, 2009 |
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A new study into the research of the renowned Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer may help to end the controversy which has engulfed his research for almost a century. The study, published in The Journal of Experimental Zo ...
Newer Anti-Clotting Medication Found to Be More Effective
Medicine & Health / Medications
Aug 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A large head-to-head study of two anti-clotting medications for heart patients has found that the investigational compound ticagrelor (Brilinta) was more effective at reducing cardiovascular death than the ...
Immune defect is key to skin aging
Aug 28, 2009 |
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Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered why older people may be so vulnerable to cancer and infections in the skin. The team from UCL has shown in human volunteers ...
New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease
Aug 26, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted ...
Improvement of liver stem cell engraftment by protein delivery
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at INSERM (France) have engineered a chimeric protein that increases cell survival, migration and proliferation to improve stem cell engraftment. The results, which appear in the September 2009 issue of Experimental Bi ...
What she sees in you -- facial attractiveness explained
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to potential mates, women may be as complicated as men claim they are, according to psychologists.
Detecting bias in the reporting of clinical trials
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A study by researchers at the University of Leicester has revealed new ways to spot whether medical research has hidden biases. Writing in the prestigious British Medical Journal, Santiago Moreno and his colleagues demons ...
How meningitis bacteria attack the brain
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific protein on the surface of a common bacterial pathogen allows the bacteria to leave the bloodstream and enter the brain, initiating the deadly infection known as meningitis. The new finding, which ...
Pushing quantum mechanics to higher levels
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have devised a new type of superconducting circuit that behaves quantum mechanically -- but has up to five levels of energy instead of the usual two. The findings are published ...
