Smoke From Australian Fires Have Already Circled The Globe
According to a recent update from NASA, smoke from the wildfires in Australia has already…
Month: January 2020
Scientists Reveal The Four Types Of Aging
Different people age differently. And now, a new research may let scientists take another step…
Listen: A J.P. Morgan recap, a plan to bust pharma monopolies, and a website for cancer patients
Why weren’t there any big deals announced this week? What does the word “equivalar” mean?…
STAT Plus: Airing frustrations with pharma, a Republican FTC commissioner just endorsed Medicare negotiation
WASHINGTON — A Republican member of the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday expressed support for…
STAT Plus: Lilly exec says ‘there are no villains’ in the high-priced insulin market
Several months ago, Eli Lilly (LLY) launched LisPro, an authorized generic version of its Humalog…
STAT Plus: A venture firm warms to funding neuroscience
Longtime venture capital star Beth Seidenberg and former Amgen R&D chief Sean Harper say they…
15% of U.S. adults are physically inactive, new CDC data show
More than 1 in 7 adults across all U.S. states and territories are physically inactive,…
Opinion: The public science behind the ‘Merck’ Ebola vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved an important vaccine against Ebola, five years…
Three African nations roll out first malaria vaccine in closely watched trial
TOMALI, Malawi — A pinch in the leg, a squeal, and a trickle of tears….
Sierra Nevada Plans For 2021 Dream Chaser Launch
Next year can be a very big year for Sierra Nevada Corp. since the Colorado-based…
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Can A Fungus Help Build Outposts On Mars?
When the technology allows for it, scientists are pretty sure that humans would start living…
Best Tips To Prevent Burnout At Work This 2020
Here are some easy tips to help you avoid burnout from work this 2020. Read…
Blood Test Could Predict Impending Death, Illness
Per a new research, scientists found a way to predict illness and imminent death better…
Want To Lose Weight Fast This 2020? Try The Keto Diet
Looking for a diet to follow this year? The ketogenic diet might be for you….
Health officials worry some minority groups delaying prenatal care – WRVO Public Media
Health officials worry some minority groups delaying prenatal care WRVO Public Media Read Original Article: Health…
4 Meaningful Ways To Observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day With Young Children
The post 4 Meaningful Ways To Observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day With Young Children…
10 years on, Michèle Montas recalls the day no Haitian can forget
In the days following the earthquake ten years ago that killed around 220,000 Haitians, the…
News in Brief 16 January 2020
Syrian conflict has ‘erased’ children’s dreams: new UN report 45 million going hungry in southern Africa:…
Full evacuation of Philippines volcano zone essential, as UN calls for collective long-term effort
The top UN emergency relief coordinator in the Philippines said on Thursday that his team…
Merck Completes Acquisition of ArQule
Dateline City: KENILWORTH, N.J. KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United…
How To Tell If Your Probiotic Is Not Working For You
When constipation, diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome improve, it can be taken to mean the…
Flu vs. Flu-Like Illness: What You Need To Know
Flu-like illnesses are treated similarly with antiviral medication by doctors who just go by the…
Caring for a Child or Family Member Sick with Dengue
Source: Centers for Disease Control and PreventionRelated MedlinePlus Pages: Dengue, Infections and Pregnancy Read Original…
Patients with newly diagnosed chronic musculoskeletal pain are prescribed opioids more often than recommended
[em]NIH study shows treatment recommendations impacted by patient and physician factors[/em] Study finds that patients experiencing…
Government mismanaged delayed PFI hospital projects, says spending watchdog
The government has been criticised for its handling of the growing costs of two delayed…
New vulnerability in kidney cancer
Medical researchers have identified a possible way to treat tumors while sparing nearby healthy tissue….
Edible ‘security tag’ to protect drugs from counterfeit
Researchers are aiming to stump drug counterfeiters with an edible ‘security tag’ embedded into medicine….
Mix of stress and air pollution may lead to cognitive difficulties in children
Children with elevated exposure to early life stress in the home and elevated prenatal exposure…
Helping patients prep mind and body for surgery pays off
An inexpensive program to help surgery patients get physically and mentally ready for their upcoming…
Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in ‘strange metal’
Physicists have observed quantum entanglement among ‘billions of billions’ of flowing electrons in a quantum…
A secreted signature of aging cells
Senescent cells undergo an irreversible and permanent arrest of cell division and are hallmarks of…
Efficacy of drugs against pork tapeworm
Taenia solium — also called pork tapeworm — is a parasite which causes disease around…
New model shows how crop rotation helps combat plant pests
A new computational model shows how different patterns of crop rotation — planting different crops…
Mosquitoes engineered to repel dengue virus
An international team of scientists has synthetically engineered mosquitoes that halt the transmission of the…
Improved brain chip for precision medicine
A biomedical research team is reporting an improvement on a microfluidic brain cancer chip. The…
How anti-sprawl policies may be harming water quality
Urban growth boundaries are created by governments in an effort to concentrate urban development —…
The carbon footprint of dinner: How ‘green’ are fish sticks?
Fish sticks may be a tasty option for dinner, but are they good for the…
Organized cybercrime — not your average mafia
Scientists have identified common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and work…
New optical technique captures real-time dynamics of cement setting
Researchers have developed a nondestructive and noninvasive optical technique that can determine the setting times…
Are bigger brains better?
When it comes to certain parts of the brain, bigger doesn’t necessarily equate to better…
Fossil is the oldest-known scorpion
Scientists studying fossils collected 35 years ago have identified them as the oldest-known scorpion species,…
What’s MER? A new way to measure quantum materials
Experimental physicists have combined several measurements of quantum materials into one in their ongoing quest…
Sleep linked to language skills in neurodevelopmental disorders
New research has discovered that Down’s syndrome, Fragile X syndrome and Williams syndrome are all…
Progress in unraveling the mystery of the genomics of Parkinson’s disease
The International Parkinson Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC) has now been in existence for ten years….
Lights on for germ-free wound dressings
Infections are a dreaded threat that can have fatal consequences after an operation, in the…
Syrian conflict has ‘erased’ children’s dreams: new UN report
Nearly nine years of conflict in Syria have robbed boys and girls of their childhood and subjected…
RCGP cancels fossil fuel conference at headquarters after backlash
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has cancelled a conference run by Oil &…
Cells protect themselves against stress by keeping together
For the first time, research shows that the contacts between cells, known as cell adhesion,…
Complex porous, chiral nano-patterns arise from a simple linear building block
Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly…
Walnuts may be good for the gut and help promote heart health
Researchers found that eating walnuts daily as part of a healthy diet was associated with…