A new study on extinction risk has shown that proportions of plant and animal species…
Month: April 2013
Lack of consensus among health care providers in identifying sepsis poses threat to treatment
Though the toll of sepsis is known to be enormous — costing the US health…
Mammogram tool improves some breast cancer detection but also increases false alarms
A costly and widely used mammography add-on increases detection of noninvasive and early-stage invasive breast…
A quarter of patients discharged from hospitals return to ERs within 30 days
Nearly one quarter of patients may return to the emergency department within 30 days of…
Neighbors move electrons jointly: Ultrafast collective electron transfer after excitation of single electron
Applying femtosecond x-ray methods, researchers have observed an extremely fast, collective electron transfer of ~100…
Paper-thin skin patch collects vitals: E-health made easier and more comfortable
The future of health care could be found in a tiny, paper-thin skin patch that…
Standardized testing creates ‘toxic environment’ in schools, professor says
Standardized testing has facilitated “an incredibly toxic environment in our schools and in our discourse…
Transcription factors regulating blood oxygen linked to melanoma metastases
Researchers have discovered that transcription factors regulating the levels of oxygen in the blood also…
Tobacco companies keep people smoking despite UK cigarette tax increases
The tobacco industry keeps the price of its cheapest cigarettes virtually static despite annual increases…
Medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis may affect abortion rate in women
A new study reveals that women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who were on methotrexate, a…