From the American Osteopathic Association media release: Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine are nearing development of a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer’s disease, which would give physicians…
From the Vanderbilt University media release: How happy you are may have something to do with who you know — and where you come from. Lijun Song, assistant professor of sociology, set out to discover whether…
From the University of Delaware media release: College students playing Japanese fighting video games often object to the unrealistic depictions of the characters, drawn with exaggerated and highly sexualized physiques, but they say the mechanics of…
From the Rutgers University media release: Can you imagine a drug that would make it easier to learn a language, sharpen your memory and help those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by rewiring the brain and…
From the American Physiological Society (APS) media release: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disorder in which cells of the nervous system die, leading to muscle weakness that impacts breathing, movement and other physical functions. More…
From the Rockefeller University media release: A new class of drugs under development to treat depression has shown some success by targeting brain cells’ ability to respond to the chemical messenger glutamate. But the mechanism by…
From the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) media release: Stroke is very rare in children, but colds, flu and other minor infections may temporarily increase stroke risk in children, according to a study published in…
From the American Cancer Society media release: Cancer survivors who smoke report fewer negative opinions about smoking, have more barriers to quitting, and are around other smokers more often than survivors who had quit before…
From the NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke media release: Scientists at the National Institutes of Health discovered that reactivation of ancient viral genes embedded in the human genome may cause the destruction of neurons…
From the University of Waterloo media release: Proponents of climate change tend to use more conservative, tentative language to report on the science behind it, while skeptics use more emotional and assertive language when reinterpreting scientific…