Pinecone or pine nut? Friend or foe? Distinguishing between the two requires that we pay…
Month: April 2014
Night owls, unlike early birds, tend to be unmarried risk-takers
Women who are night owls share the same high propensity for risk-taking as men, according…
Similarities between HIV/AIDS, opioid addiction epidemics
There are important parallels between the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the current…
Deforestation of sandy soils a greater climate threat
A new study finds that tree removal has far greater consequences for climate change in…
Overuse of blood transfusions increases infection risk
The fewer the red blood cell transfusions, the less likely patients were to develop infections…
Adult tonsillectomy complications and health care expenses
A study of 36,210 adult tonsillectomy patients finds that 20 percent will have a complication,…
Schools have limited success in reducing bullying, new analysis finds
School efforts to reduce bullying are often disappointing; year-round, comprehensive programs appear to be more…
Emergency department dental care treatment raises access, cost issues for policymakers
The use of emergency departments for dental care — especially by young adults in low-income…
Epilepsy drug target implications for sleep disruption in brain disorders
A study using the mutant fruitfly sleepless confirmed that the enzyme GABA transaminase, a target…
Twenty Years Later: How Breast Cancer Risk Genes are Changing Patient Care
In the mid-1990s, scientists for the first time were able to isolate and clone the…