Jul
6
2017
Too many Americans are prescribed too many opioids for too long, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease
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How Opioid Prescriptions Have Changed Recently: New Report
Orcas Feast on Whale in Shocking Raw Video
Jul
6
2017
Detection for the masses
Jul
6
2017
A user-friendly mass spectrometry has been created for application in healthcare, drug detection, and food safety.
Novel PET tracer detects small blood clots
Jul
6
2017
Blood clots in veins and arteries can lead to heart attack, stroke, and pulmonary embolism, which are major causes of mortality. Now researchers show that targeting GPIIb/IIIa receptors, the key receptor involved in platelet clumping, with a fluorine-18 labeled ligand is a promising approach for diagnostic imaging.
Hubble pushed beyond limits to spot clumps of new stars in distant galaxy
Jul
6
2017
By applying a new computational analysis to a galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, astronomers have obtained images 10 times sharper than what Hubble could achieve on its own.
A steady pulse: Ocean vital signs are stable, but bill of health isn't clean, concludes a multiyear global assessment
Jul
6
2017
For perhaps the first time ever, the world's oceans have a health record -- and it's revealing clues about what might be behind symptoms of ocean improvements or declines alike.
Link between Pokémon Go and a healthier lifestyle: Is it true?
Jul
6
2017
Playing a popular physically-interactive, smartphone based game, like Pokémon GO, may actually promote exercise, a new study has concluded. The researchers suggest that while many smartphone functions may promote sedentary activity, they are hopeful that playing physically-interactive, smartphone based video games like Pokémon GO may help promote walking and reduce sitting in college students.
Falls lead to declines in seniors
Jul
6
2017
More than half of elderly patients (age 65 and older) who visited an emergency department because of injuries sustained in a fall suffered adverse events -- including additional falls, hospitalization and death -- within 6 months. The results of a study examining how risk factors predict recurrent falls and adverse events were published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ('Revisit, Subsequent Hospitalization, Recurrent Fall and Death within 6 Months after a Fall among Elderly Emergency Department Patients').
Mothers often distracted during breast and bottle feeding
Jul
6
2017
As innovation expands the accessibility of technology, the potential for distraction increases as well. A new study assesses the level and type of distractions that affect mothers during infant feeding and discusses the potential impact on mothers and babies. Researchers found that distractions occurred in close to half of feedings, with ~60 percent of distractions attributable to technological devices.