New research provides brain imaging evidence that students well-versed in very basic single digit arithmetic…
Month: January 2013
When will genomic research translate into clinical care — and at what cost? New study applies quantitative modeling to genomics
Researchers find that the same tools that can successfully predict hurricanes and election outcomes can…
Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Saharan Africa
The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda,…
Researchers seek longer battery life for electric locomotive
Norfolk Southern Railway No. 999 is the first all-electric, battery-powered locomotive in the United States….
Outsourced radiologists perform better reading for fewer hospitals
Experience working for a particular hospital matters when it comes to the performance of radiologists…
Physicians call for change in cancer tissue handling
Physicians say that traditional specimen handling methods threaten to slow the benefits of using genetic…
A temperature below absolute zero: Atoms at negative absolute temperature are the hottest systems in the world
On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the…
Under the weather, literally: More rainfall and bigger storms may lead to more stomach upsets
We can blame all sorts of things on the weather. But a stomach bug? It…
How prostate cancer therapies compare by cost and effectiveness
The most comprehensive retrospective study ever conducted comparing how the major types of prostate cancer…
Consumers judge their risk of catching an illness by the cost of the cure
Consumers make irrational inferences about their health risks based on the price of their medicine.