'Smelling' heart failure
Evaluation of an electronic nose
It's official -- chocolate linked to heart health
Chocolate consumption and cardiometabolic disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis
Humans Hardwired to Tune Into Animals
The response likely evolved from when we had to run after - or from - animals for survival.
Bird flu fear as strain mutates
Avian flu shows signs of a resurgence, while a mutant strain - able to sidestep vaccines - could be spreading in Asia, the United Nations has warned.
How Dead Is Dead?
Sometimes, those who have died seem more alive than those who have not
Virus attacks childhood cancers
Researchers from Yale University are looking to a virus from the same family as the rabies virus to fight a form of cancer primarily found in children and young adults.
From mild-mannered to killer plague
Study explains plague's rapid evolution and sheds light on fighting deadly diseases
What do patients receiving optimal medical therapy after a heart attack die from?
Because of improved management at the acute stage, the risk of dying in hospital after a heart attack has decreased by about 50% in the past 10 years.
Bed bugs hold clue to STI prevention
Bed bugs protect their sperm against sexually transmitted infections by producing germ-busting ejaculates, scientists have found.
Patient's lifesaving donor heart arrives 'warm and beating' inside experimental device
Medical Xpress - When Rob Evans' new donor heart arrived at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, the organ wasn't frozen on ice inside a cooler, as is typical.
Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells
USC chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen
Natural anti-oxidant deserts aging body
Cell's reserve fighting force shrinks with age, new study finds.
Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight
Using advanced theoretical computations, a team of Kentucky scientists has derived a means to "tweak" an inexpensive semiconductor to function as photoelectrochemical catalyst.
Fukushima media coverage 'may be harmful'
Alarmist predictions that the long-term health effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan will be worse than those following Chernobyl in 1986 are likely to aggravate harmful psychological effects of the incident.
Iron 'Veins' Are Secret of Promising New Hydrogen Storage Material
With a nod to biology, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a new approach to the problem of safely storing hydrogen in future fuel-cell-powered cars.
Resistance to antibiotics is ancient, McMaster study finds
Hamilton, ON - Scientists were surprised at how fast bacteria developed resistance to the miracle antibiotic drugs when they were developed less than a century ago.
World's largest cardiac arrest trial shows longer initial paramedic CPR provides no benefit
Study led by Ottawa Hospital researcher published in the New England Journal of Medicine
UBC researchers find a new culprit in Alzheimer’s disease: Too many blood vessels
Discovery could highlight a new avenue for drug development to combat neurodegenerative disorder
Humans shaped stone axes 1.8 million years ago, study says
Evidence pushes advanced tool-making methods back in time
The star that should not exist
A faint star in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), called SDSS J102915+172927 [1], has been found to have the lowest amount of elements heavier than helium (what astronomers call "metals") of all stars yet studied.
BUSM professor outlines best practices for treating victims of sexual assault
The article utilizes a clinical vignette to illustrate evaluation and treatment protocols to educate primary care and emergency physicians about the best practice models of treating individuals presenting with sexual assault.
Mining Electronic Records Yields Connections Between Diseases
Data integration technique could help researchers find missing links among medical conditions
Genetic mutation may help explain first land-based plants
A graduate student working in the Judaean desert has discovered a gene that could provide some of the explanation of how water plants colonized dry land.
Researchers successfully perform first injection of cultured red blood cells in human donor
WASHINGTON - For the first time, researchers have successfully injected cultured red blood cells (cRBCs) created from human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) into a human donor, according to study results published today in Blood, the Journal of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
New half-match bone marrow transplant procedure yields promising outcomes for cancer patients
Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson clinical trial found improved overall survival in blood cancer patients who received two-step, half-match bone marrow transplant procedure
Crippling condition associated with diabetes is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood
Diabetes Care article helps to identify and treat charcot foot
An 'unconventional' path to correcting cystic fibrosis
Researchers have identified an unconventional path that may correct the defect underlying cystic fibrosis, according to a report in the September 2nd issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
Fatty skin cell clue to baldness
Fat cells in the skin have been identified as the source of chemicals needed to make hair grow, according to researchers in the US.
Your brain chemistry existed before animals did
WHEN wondering about the origins of our brain, don't look to Homo sapiens, chimpanzees, fish or even worms. Many key components first appeared in single-celled organisms, long before animals, brains and even nerve cells existed.
'Oldest' woolly rhino discovered
A woolly rhino fossil dug up on the Tibetan Plateau is believed to be the oldest specimen of its kind yet found.
CDC: Doctors prescribing fewer antibiotics to kids
(AP) -- The push to get pediatricians to stop prescribing antibiotics for the wrong illnesses is paying off a bit, a new government report found.
Distinct features of autistic brain revealed in novel Stanford/Packard analysis of MRI scans
STANFORD, Calif. - Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital have used a novel method for analyzing brain-scan data to distinguish children with autism from typically developing children.
First chemical complex consisting of rare earth metals and boron atoms produces unexpected results
Rare earth metals are critical components of hybrid vehicle engines, but a new partnership between these elements and boron atoms is set to have a transformative impact on synthetic chemistry.
Rock rafts 'life origin' floated
Volcanic rock rafts could have played a key role in the origins of life on Earth, a team of scientists suggests.
Harmless soil-dwelling bacteria successfully kill cancer
A bacterial strain that specifically targets tumours could soon be used as a vehicle to deliver drugs in frontline cancer therapy.
Yale researchers solve mystery of disappearing bird digit
Evolution adds and subtracts, and nowhere is this math more evident than in vertebrates, which are programmed to have five digits on each limb.
New tactic for controlling blood sugar in diabetes contradicts current view of the disease
Study finds inflammation may be part of the solution, not the problem