Day March 8, 2018

Medicine, Health Care Studies Examine Trends in Pain… Published: March 8, 2018.Released by Wiley A new study reveals that acetaminophen use and over-dosing rise in cold/flu season in the United States, primarily due to increased use of over-the-counter combination medications…

Medicine, Health Care Decoy Molecules Target E. Coli… Published: March 8, 2018.Released by Washington University School of Medicine   Half of all women will experience the pain and burning of a urinary tract infection (UTI) at some point in their lives.…

Medicine, Health Care New Way to Fight Sepsis:… Published: March 8, 2018.Released by Washington University School of Medicine While many people have never heard of sepsis, it causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United States. The condition develops when…

IMAGE: Ennio Tasciotti, Ph.D., and his team are sharing their ‘recipe’ for a new, more affordable way to make nanoparticles. This will empower any laboratory in the world to easily create… view more  Credit: Houston Methodist HOUSTON – (March 7, 2018)…

IMAGE: Five massive storms form a pentagon around a storm at the center of Jupiter’s south pole-the first look we’ve ever gotten at the gas giant’s poles, and a scientific mystery…. view more  Credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS Jupiter’s got no sway. The biggest…

Massachusetts boasts one of the most iconic fisheries in the U.S., but new research suggests that protecting marine coastlines has surpassed commercial fishing as an economic driver. The study is the first to calculate the economic value of coastal preservation…

The sixth edition of The Tobacco Atlas and its companion website TobaccoAtlas.org* finds the tobacco industry is increasingly targeting vulnerable populations in emerging markets, such as Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, where people are not protected by strong tobacco…

(Boston)–Researchers have identified a protein in saliva (histatin-5) that protects the body from traveler’s diarrhea. The findings, available online in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, may lead to the development of new preventive therapies for the disease. Traveler’s diarrhea is…

AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 8, 2018) – Analysis of the inflammation-promoting proteins in the blood of patients with type 1 diabetes and related kidney disease indicates that the promoters of inflammation are diverse even in the same medical condition and that…

Farm manure could be a viable source of renewable energy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Researchers at the University of Waterloo are developing technology to produce renewable natural gas from manure so it can be…

Watching YouTube videos, Instagram demos, and Facebook tutorials may make us feel as though we’re acquiring all sorts of new skills but it probably won’t make us experts, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association…

The new technique was developed by Professor Tom Francart and his colleagues from the Department of Neurosciences at KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with the University of Maryland. It will allow for a more accurate diagnosis of patients who cannot…