From the Concordia University media release: A recent Concordia study examined the sleep cycles of 12 Concordia students as they went through the nerve-racking experience of finals. There may not yet be a cure for…
From the Rush University Medical Center media release: Stroke is the leading cause of severe long-term disability in the United States, and less than 40 percent of patients who experience the most severe form of stroke…
From the University of Conneticut: Mammals are good at figuring out which direction a sound is coming from, whether it’s a rabbit with a predator breathing down its neck or a baby crying for its…
From the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) media release: Materials resulting from chemical bonding of glucosamine, a type of sugar, with fullerenes, kind of nanoparticles known as buckyballs, might help to reduce cell…
From the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center media release: A commonly prescribed antidepressant caused up to a six-fold increase in atherosclerosis plaque in the coronary arteries of non-human primates, according to a study by researchers…
From the Princeton University media release: Sometimes being too focused on a task is not a good thing. During tasks that require our attention, we might become so engrossed in what we are doing that…
From the University of Helsinki media release: Music performance is known to induce structural and functional changes to the human brain and enhance cognition. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying music performance have been so far…
From the Brown University media release: When a nursing home patient is dying, aggressive interventions such as inserting a feeding tube or sending the patient to the emergency room can futilely exacerbate, rather than relieve,…
From the Brown University media release: When a nursing home patient is dying, aggressive interventions such as inserting a feeding tube or sending the patient to the emergency room can futilely exacerbate, rather than relieve,…
From the Henry Ford Health System media release: Co-existing psychiatric illness should be considered in assessing hospital readmissions for three common medical conditions used by Medicare and Medicaid to penalize hospitals with “excessive” readmission rates.…