Lashing out at your spouse? Check your blood sugar
Study finds that 'hangry' husbands and wives get more aggressive
Chinese herbal remedy as good as methotrexate for treating rheumatoid arthritis
And combination of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F plus methotrexate even better
Lower salt intake likely to have had key role in plummeting cardiovascular disease deaths in past decade
Average salt intake fell by 15 percent in 2003-11 in England; heart disease and stroke deaths fell by around 40 percent
Osteoporosis drugs appear to impede cell membrane repair
A class of drugs widely used to treat osteoporosis appears to impede a cell's ability to repair a protective outer membrane that helps determine what enters and exits, researchers report.
Study says we're over the hill at 24
It's a hard pill to swallow, but if you're over 24 years of age you've already reached your peak in terms of your cognitive motor performance, according to a new Simon Fraser University study.
Simple test in the ambulance saves lives after heart attack, new study finds
A new study from the University of Surrey, published today in the journal Heart, has identified a positive link between the survival of heart attack patients and the use of an electrocardiogram, by ambulance crews
If El Niño Comes This Year, It Could Be a Monster
Attention, weather superfans: El Niño might be coming back. And this time, we could be in for a big one.
Scientists Create a Copper-Based Catalyst that Produces Large Quantities of Ethanol
A team of scientists from Stanford University has created a copper-based catalyst that produces large quantities of ethanol from carbon monoxide gas at room temperature.
Asian air pollution affect Pacific Ocean storms
In the first study of its kind, scientists have compared air pollution rates from 1850 to 2000 and found that anthropogenic (man-made) particles from Asia impact the Pacific storm track that can influence weather over much of the world.
Mouse model would have predicted toxicity of drug that killed 5 in 1993 clinical trial
Over 20 years after the fatal fialuridine trial, a study published this week in PLOS Medicine demonstrates that mice with humanized livers recapitulate the drug's toxicity.
Rising demand for herbal medicine can increase cultivation of medicinal trees
Formalizing trade in herbal medicinal products has the potential to increase the demand for on-farm grown raw material and raise the level of cultivation of medicinal tree species in smallholder farms.
The “Crisis” in Scientific Results Is a Matter of Biology
Biology is making it harder for scientists to reproduce one another's experiments
Newly Designed Nanoparticles Can Deliver Three Cancer Drugs at a Time
In a newly published study, MIT chemists detail how they designed nanoparticles that can deliver three cancer drugs at a time.
Australian brush-turkey eggs inspire ideas for germ-resistant coatings
Brush-turkey's eggshell surface - dotted with nanospheres - blocks bacteria
Study provides crucial new information about how the ice ages came about
An international team of scientists has discovered new relationships between deep-sea temperature and ice-volume changes to provide crucial new information about how the ice ages came about.
The surprising consequences of banning chocolate milk
What would happen if chocolate milk were banned from school cafeterias?
High disease load reduces mortality of children
Trans-generational defense mechanism in humans proved
Slow-motion tremors make Tokyo megaquake more likely
The people of Tokyo have long lived in fear of another great earthquake, and those fears are increasingly justified.
Green Tea's Impact on Cognitive Function Now Clear
Green tea appears to boost memory by enhancing functional brain connectivity, a new imaging study suggests.
An Easier Way to Delay Cutting the Cord
Doctors in the delivery room are increasingly urged to hold off cutting the umbilical cord of a newborn.
Non-vaccine Drug Ready to Fight Measles
A drug that could contain measles outbreaks works on animals, researchers reported today.
Herbal Supplements Are Top Complementary Medicine in the US
Nonvitamin, nonmineral dietary supplements, chiropractic manipulation, yoga, and massage therapy are the most common complementary health approaches among US adults, but rates of use vary by area of the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The story of animal domestication retold
Scientists now think wild animals interbred with domesticated ones until quite recently
Adrenaline does little to increase patient's survival after cardiac arrest
Giving patients adrenaline after they suffer a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital does not increase their prospects of surviving long-term, according to new research conducted at St. Michael's Hospital.
Is Parkinson's an autoimmune disease?
Attack by own immune system may kill neurons in Parkinson's disease
Multitarget TB drug could treat other diseases, evade resistance
A drug under clinical trials to treat tuberculosis could be the basis for a class of broad-spectrum drugs that act against various bacteria, fungal infections and parasites, yet evade resistance, according to a study by University of Illinois chemists and collaborators.
Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites
Ancient Earth might have had an extraterrestrial supply of vitamin B3 delivered by carbon-rich meteorites, according to a new analysis by NASA-funded researchers.
Centipede Eats Snake from Inside Out
A group of researchers stumbled upon a grisly scene during a field study in Macedonia last year: a dead nose-horned viper with a centipede's head sticking out of its ruptured abdomen.
Threatwatch: Is the MERS virus spreading its wings?
The Philippines and Malaysia have identified their first-ever MERS cases.
Kepler Discovers Earth-Size Planet Orbiting a Star in the ‘Habitable Zone’
Astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone,” confirming that Earth-size planets exist in the habitable zones of other stars and signaling a significant step closer to finding a world similar to Earth.
Chronic inflammation may be linked to aggressive prostate cancer
Chronic inflammation in benign prostate tissue was associated with high-grade, or aggressive, prostate cancer
Innovative strategy to facilitate organ repair
A significant breakthrough could revolutionize surgical practice and regenerative medicine.
Researchers create methylation maps of Neanderthals and Denisovans, compare them to modern humans
A team of Israeli, Spanish and German researchers has for the first time created a map of gene expression in Neanderthals and Denisovans and has compared them with modern humans.
Finding turns neuroanatomy on its head
Harvard researchers present new view of myelin
Effective Treatment for Fibromyalgia May Now Be Possible
Fibromyalgia much better understood now and effective treatment is now possible
House Calls Are Making a Comeback
A relic from the medical past - the house call - is returning to favor as part of some hospitals’ palliative care programs, which are sending teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other workers to patients’ homes after they are discharged.