Day June 16, 2015

IMAGE: A microfabricated device developed by the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine is able to analyze the effects of pro-drugs — substances transformed within the liver into therapeutic… view more Credit: Courtesy of Shyam Sundhar Bale, Massachusetts General…

Humans aren’t the only ones who like to cruise along the waterways, so do viruses. For the first time, a map of fecal viruses traveling our global waterways has been created using modeling methods to aid in assessing water quality…

Tropical Storm Bill was making landfall at 11 a.m. CDT on Matagorda Island, Texas on June 16 as NASA and NOAA satellites gathered data on the storm. At NASA a movie of Bill’s landfall was created using data from NOAA’s…

Results from a new study led the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Psychology and University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management show that, compared to younger job seekers, older adults receive fewer job offers, search for weeks longer and…

A 17-year-old girl in Minnesota died Monday, nearly a week after she suffered cardiac arrest while having her wisdom teeth pulled. Sydney Galleger’s tragic case drew national attention as her family posted daily updates about her condition online. Galleger went…

After months of fighting for the surgery, a North Carolina couple is celebrating a breakthrough for their 1-year-old daughter Laken. On Monday, she heard her parents’ voices for the first time after doctors turned on her cochlear implants. “It makes…

Let’s get one thing straight: there’s no magic bullet to losing weight. It requires hard work and effort. But the latest weight-loss research presented in a popular New York Times article suggests that we might be spending too much time…

iStockphoto Foods labels can be confounding. On the one hand, they contain vital information health-conscious consumers need, the ingredients and nutritional content, but then there’s the rest of the label. And that’s where it gets tricky. Labels are part of…

Chocolate is good for your heart — sort of, maybe. Eating up to 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of chocolate daily is linked with lowered risks of heart disease and stroke, scientists reported today (June 15) in the journal Heart. That…

Mark Twain is credited with saying, “I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” I imagine many Americans can relate. When we really think about it, most of the things we worry about or fear…

J.P. Labrosse was already feeling better. Just weeks after he arrived at Apple to lead the special products team developing the iPod Classic and Shuffle, the standing desk he was assigned was starting to pay off. He felt healthier. “Immediately…

These days, fitness trainers like Steve Cook say everyone seems intent on getting a better butt. Inspired by the well-sculpted behinds of Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez, booty-focused workouts are becoming more and more popular — and even if you…

“How is Alana doing?” It is a question my husband has been asked frequently in the three and a half years since our pregnancy losses began. Sometimes it comes from a parent at the T-ball field. Other times he is…

The Practice: Speak truly. Why? It’s been said that the most powerful tool for physical health is a fork (or spoon), since the choices you make with it determine the good or bad things you put into your body. In…

Online dating can feel intimidating. The initial setup of your profile can sometimes make you feel pressured to make it perfect. But here’s a secret: there is no such thing as a perfect profile. No matter what you put out…

1 Division of Nephrology, The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa, 5-11 1967 Riverside Drive, Ottawa K1H7W9, ON, Canada 2 Kidney Research Centre, The Ottawa Hospital, 1967 Riverside Drive, Ottawa K1H7W9, ON, Canada 3 Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre, University…

1 Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Avenue South, MCN, C-2310A, Nashville 37232-2561, TN, USA 2 Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences and the Greenebaum Cancer Center/Dental School, University…

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2015, 10:24 doi:10.1186/s13011-015-0020-7 Published: 17 June 2015

1 Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, 1-1 Mukaihatacho Fukakusa, Fushimi, Kyoto 612-0862, Japan 2 Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Tsukinowacho Seta Otsu, Shiga 520-2121, Japan For all author emails,…

Español Based on a thorough review of the scientific evidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized its determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial trans fat in processed foods, are not “generally recognized…

Vitamin D plays an important part in the human immune response and deficiency can leave individuals less able to fight infections like HIV-1. Now an international team of researchers has found that high-dose vitamin D supplementation can reverse the deficiency…

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The death toll continued to mount in South Korea’s MERS outbreak on Tuesday even as schools reopen and people recover from the virus. Nineteen people have died in the largest outbreak of the disease outside…

A simple way to turn carbon nanotubes into valuable graphene nanoribbons may be to grind them, according to research led by Rice University. The trick, said Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan, is to mix two types of chemically modified nanotubes.…

The city where an individual lives can influence the risk of dying by suicide, according to a new study from sociologists at Rice University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. “Suicide in the City: Do Characteristics of Place Really…

IMAGE:  The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine () is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published online with Open Access options and in print. The Journal provides observational, clinical, and scientific reports… view more Credit: Courtesy of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,…

TORONTO, June 15 — Researchers in Canada and the U.K. have for the first time sequenced and assembled de novo the full genome of a living organism, the bacteria Escherichia Coli, using Oxford Nanopore’s MinIONTM device, a genome sequencer that…

IMAGE: The multi-wavelength image shows the ‘Eye of Medusa’ (orange) located directly below the black hole at the center of NGC 4149 (white and green). view more Credit: IRAM – Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique Embargoed until 00.01 BST, 16 June 2015…

(Philadelphia, PA) – It’s long been known that scratching evokes a rewarding and pleasurable sensation in patients with chronic itch. Now, researchers in the Department of Dermatology and Temple Itch Center at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) may be…

A Canadian study has found that university women participating in a rape-prevention program involving “resistance training” were significantly less likely to be sexually assaulted in the next year. In their New England Journal of Medicine article, Professor Charlene Senn and…

Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new technique to more precisely analyze bacterial populations, to reveal epigenetic mechanisms that can drive virulence. The new methods hold the promise of a potent new tool…

When trying to enroll in a health insurance plan through HealthCare.gov during the first open enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance marketplaces, young adults were confused by unfamiliar health insurance terms, concerned about the affordability of…

Researchers in Alberta, Canada, investigated the use of the drug mannitol before and during transportation of patients with intracranial emergencies from peripheral hospitals to tertiary facilities that house neurosurgery departments. The focus was on the appropriate use of the drug…

In two studies published online today in the American Journal of Transplantation, researchers determined that hyperlipidemia accelerates heart-transplant rejection in mice. By using models that mimic the health conditions found in human transplant recipients, the researchers from Tufts determined that…

A lifelong gluten-free diet (GFD) is the conventional approach to managing celiac disease, a chronic inflammatory disorder affecting the small intestine that can result in malnutrition. However, recent evidence …

If you watch TV, you know that a hospital is where beautiful people like Dr. Ross and Nurse Hathaway save us from ourselves. Hospitals rank right up there with police stations for the largest number of fictional dramas we’ve watched…

Sure there’s “getting used to” seizures after having the condition for so long, but there really is no getting buddy-buddy with them I’m sure we can all agree to that. It’s not fun. It’s unsettling. It’s uncomfortable. We don’t want…

Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court on Monday declined a petition to revive a North Carolina law that had required any woman having an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound. The southern US state’s legislature passed the law in…

IMAGE: This is Northeastern associate professor Leo Beletsky. view more Credit: Photo by Brooks Canaday/Northeastern University Opioid overdose is one of the leading causes of accidental death in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the epidemic…

From heat waves to damaged crops to asthma in children, climate change is a major public health concern, argues a Michigan State University researcher in a new study. Climate change is about more than melting ice caps and images of…

This news release is available in German. ETH material engineers found that the performance of ion-conducting ceramic membranes that are so important in industry depends largely on their strain and buckling profiles. For the first time, scientists can now selectively…