A new study finds that the Ice-Age diet — a high-protein intake of large animals…
Month: March 2016
Screening tools to identify developmental delay in healthy young children not beneficial
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends against using a screening tool to…
Infradian oscillation of circadian genes in a mouse model of bipolar disorder
Molecular basis of changes in mood and mood-associated behaviors are unknown. Researchers in Japan have…
Study finds cessation program delivered on Twitter to be twice as effective as other methods for helping smokers quit
Subjects in one of the first real-time, fully automated, Twitter-based smoking intervention programs — Tweet2Quit…
Are stem-cell therapies for parkinson’s disease ready for clinical trials?
As stem cell-based therapies are moving rapidly towards clinical trials, treatments for Parkinson’s Disease (PD),…
Anthropologists reconstruct mitogenomes from prehistoric dental calculus
Using advanced sequencing technologies, anthropologists demonstrate that human DNA can be significantly enriched from dental…
Nonpathogenic viruses transferred during fecal transplants
Communities of viruses can be transferred during fecal transplants, according to a study. Fortunately for…
Statement published on pairing smoking cessation with lung cancer screening
Smokers who are screened for lung cancer should be encouraged to quit smoking during their…
Big data-driven method could save money, increase efficiency in pharmaceutical management
An optimized approach for determining prescribed medication associations within a high-volume pharmacy environment has been…
Longer-term weather, environmental forecasts will provide enormous benefit
Weather and environmental forecasts made several weeks to months in advance can someday be as…