More than one in three — an estimated 328,000 — students in grades seven to…
Month: July 2016
Chronic low back pain linked to higher rates of illicit drug use
People living with chronic low back pain (cLBP) are more likely to use illicit drugs…
Here’s why run-down schools trigger low test scores
More than 230 New York City public middle schools were involved in a study that…
Wrist fractures linked to poor balance in elderly patients
Elderly patients suffering a low energy wrist (distal radius) fracture are more likely to have…
GPS jamming: Keeping ships on the ‘strait’ and narrow
Researchers are investigating how to prevent shipping Global Positioning Signals (GPS) being jammed in potential…
Prevalence, severity of tinnitus in the US
Approximately one in 10 adults in the US have tinnitus, and durations of occupational and…
New intellectual disability syndrome caused by genetic damage to single gene
Scientists have found a gene responsible for an intellectual disability disorder and proven how it…
Diabetes could be due to failure of beta cell ‘hubs’
The significant role of beta cell ‘hubs’ in the pancreas has been demonstrated for the…
What hunter-gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks
Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a…
Atmospheric chemistry on paper
Normally computers speed up calculations. But with his new pen-and-paper formula, a researcher gets his…