The US Medicare program’s transition in 2004 to tiered fee-for-service physician reimbursement for dialysis care…
Month: July 2016
Spreadsheet-style tool could democratize database design
New software could make databases much easier for laypeople to work with. The program’s home…
Colistin-resistant gene detected in US for the second time
For the second time, a clinical isolate of a bacterial pathogen has been detected in…
Cutting nerves during breast cancer surgery is associated with chronic pain
A systematic review has been conducted that analyzed 30 observational studies that enrolled 20,000 women…
Self-prescribing antibiotics is a big problem
Five percent of adults from a cohort of 400 people reported using antibiotics without a…
Strategies to mimic fasting during chemotherapy enhance anticancer T cell activity in mice
Fasting is known to increase positive outcomes during cancer treatment, and now two independent studies…
Monkeys in Brazil ‘have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least’
New archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian capuchins have been using stone tools to crack open…
Astronomers discover new distant dwarf planet beyond Neptune
Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds…
Helping kids with brain tumors recover beyond the disease
Social strains and lack of social competence are common in children recovering from malignant brain…
Lab storing information securely in DNA
Bioengineers in the United States have developed a new method for encrypting and storing sensitive…