Author: body disease
Dramatic health benefits following air pollution reduction
Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to findings in “Health Benefits of…
Electronic map reveals ‘rules of the road’ in superconductor
Using a clever technique that causes unruly crystals of iron selenide to snap into alignment, Rice University physicists have drawn a detailed map that reveals…
‘Junk DNA’ affects inherited cancer risk
A person’s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don’t code for proteins, previously dismissed as ‘junk DNA’,…
Tick box questionnaire could significantly improve esophageal cancer survival rates
A simple health questionnaire could be a highly effective tool to pre-screen people for early signs of esophageal cancer, enabling much earlier diagnosis and treatment,…
Open source EEG visualization tool
Researchers at UT have developed a free open source computer program that can be used to create visual and quantitative representations of brain electrical activity…
Behavioral interventions may be as effective at reducing food intake as anorectic drugs
Simulations predict that behavioral interventions such as imposing strict no-food restrictions after meals can be as effective as strong anorectic drugs in reducing food intake…
Nervous system doesn’t merely detect Salmonella, it defends the body against it
New research by scientists at Harvard Medical School has found that nerves in the guts of mice do not merely sense the presence of Salmonella…
New tool to predict the global spread of dengue
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, QUT and Queensland Health have developed a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases,…
