Mixed-income neighborhoods help improve the safety and wellbeing of low-income residents, but cannot relieve deeply…
Month: September 2013
Don’t let fear of falling freeze you in your tracks
Half of those in nursing homes fear falling, which can turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Know better, do better. Don’t cut SNAP-ed funding
The Farm Bill currently under debate on Capitol Hill contains many facets, but two may…
Use of fingerstick blood sample with i-STAT point-of-care device
Researchers have determined that fingerstick cardiac troponin I assay testing using the point-of-care i-STAT device…
Drug combination in HIV treatment has less benefit for treatment-naive patients
When taking some drug combinations to treat HIV, some side effects occur less frequently in…
Blood pressure cuff may save lives in patients with acute heart attack
Done in the ambulance, this simple and safe intervention – inflation of a blood pressure…
Microfluidic platform gives clear look at a crucial step in cancer metastasis
A microfluidic platform provides a high-resolution view of a crucial step in cancer metastasis.
Personality a key factor in health care use
Psychiatrists and psychologists have long understood that an individual’s personality can define how he or…
Three new species of tiny frogs from the remarkable region of Papua New Guinea
Following the description of the world’s smallest frogs, biologists now offer three more species of…
Promising new alloy for resistive switching memory: Tiny nanoscale filaments could be breakthrough for smaller, denser memory devices
Researchers have tested a number of oxide materials for their promise in resistive switching memories,…