An international team has developed a unique computational model to project the spread of the…
Month: May 2017
Fentanyl can sicken first responders: Possible solution?
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50 times more potent than heroin. Even a tiny amount…
Larger swaths of tropical forest being lost to commercial agriculture
Larger patches of tropical forest are being cleared in recent years to make way for…
The first microbial supertree from figure-mining thousands of papers
Recent reports reveal there are more than 114,000,000 published academic papers. Finding ways to efficiently…
Doctors should be paid by salary, not fee-for-service, argue behavioral economists
Researchers outline the problems associated with the fee-for-service arrangements that most doctors currently operate under….
Could there be a ‘social vaccine’ for malaria?
Malaria is a global killer and a world health concern. But while millions of dollars…
Nearly one in three drugs found to have safety concerns after FDA approval
Researchers have found that for drugs approved between 2001 and 2010, nearly 1 in 3…
Half of all seniors who went to doctor for common cold prescribed unnecessary antibiotics
Nearly one in two seniors in Ontario who visited a family doctor for a non-bacterial…
Aging gracefully in the rainforest
Researchers have synthesize over 15 years of theoretical and empirical findings from long-term study of…
Noise pollution from gas compressors changes abundance of insects, spiders
The relentless roar of natural gas compressors influences the numbers of insects and spiders nearby,…