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28.10.2024 | Bridging Gaps: India’s Leap into Research and Healthcare Innovation | In a world where knowledge is power, India is making strides to harness that power. The recent initiatives by Springer Nature and the Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) showcase a commitment to research and healthcare that could resh... |
28.10.2024 | CCDC-Bridge Centre's Assisted Telemedicine Initiative Demonstrates Significant Improvements in Chronic Disease Outcomes | New Delhi, Delhi, India
The Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) has reported promising results from its innovative ‘DigiSetu’ assisted telemedicine initiative, designed to improve healthcare access and outcomes for chronic disease pat... |
22.10.2024 | Springer Nature's India Research Tour 2024 Concludes at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore | Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
The Springer Nature India Research Tour 2024 was successfully concluded at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, after an engaging journey across 9 states and 15 cities and 24 leading academic and resear... |
20.09.2024 | Springer Nature's India Research Tour 2024 Flagged off at the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in Delhi | New Delhi, Delhi, India
Springer Nature India has partnered with the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Education, Government of India for the 2nd edition of its National Research Tour. Building on the success of... |
28.06.2024 | Клетка ХIX. Метаболизм | Среди важнейших признаков живой материи ее субъекты (объекты, организмы) выделяются из всех возможных обменом информацией, веществом и энергией с внешней средой, которые служат основой жизнедеятельности организмов. Помимо этого совокупность... |
17.04.2024 | Phytopathology Research Celebrates 100 Years of Plant Pathology Research in China | A special issue published in Phytopathology Research celebrates 100 years of plant pathology research in China, highlighting the latest research and review articles in the subdiscipline
The esteemed journal published a special issue on plan... |
28.03.2024 | Beyond Meat Reformulates Beef Crumbles with New Flavour and Heart-Check Certification | 5 Mins Read Continuing its health-centric marketing drive, Beyond Meat has reformulated its line of plant-based beef crumbles, which now come in three flavours and are certified as heart-healthy and suitable for diabetes prevention and mana... |
21.03.2024 | Biological progress or bathtub brews? The state of US crop biologicals in 2024 | Bathtub brew. Snake oil. Bugs in a jug. For years, companies developing biologicals — a form of crop protection derived from naturally occurring substances like microbes, peptides, and plants — have labored under the shadow of these labels,... |
03.12.2023 | More nuts and grains, please: Plant-based foods linked to a lower risk of heart disease and diabetes | Listen to this article
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22.11.2023 | New Research: Not All UPFs Created Equal, Plant-Based Meat Can Be Part of Healthy Diet | 8 Mins Read Two new European health studies suggest that while a plant-rich, minimally-processed whole foods diet is ideal for good health, consuming some processed foods including bread and plant-based meat is perfectly fine.
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15.09.2023 | New Study Reveals Surprising Link Between Coffee Consumption and Mental Health Risk | John Lopez, Tech Times 15 September 2023, 01:09 pm
Are you a coffee lover who cannot start the day without a cup of your favorite brew? A new study might make you rethink your daily caffeine intake.
According to recent research published in... |
21.12.2022 | Of alpha dogs and cat poop | In Yellowstone National Park, a lone wolf usually ends up dead. Gray wolves typically live and hunt in packs, but sometimes a pack member leaves its family group. Other wolves, protecting their own pack's territory, will kill the loner. One... |
21.12.2022 | Want to start your own company? You might have a brain parasite. | Is the urge to start a company caused by a brain parasite?
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In Yellowstone National Park, a lone wolf usually ends up dead. Gray wolves typically live and hunt in packs, but sometimes a pack member leaves its family group. Othe... |
11.12.2022 | These 3D-printed, Hyper-realistic Masks Are So Convincing They May Freak You Out! | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 11 December 2022, 08:12 am
A Japanese store has released a novel twist on the concept of face disguise, a hyper-realistic mask replicating every person's facial feature in three-dimensional art.
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10.10.2022 | Record-Breaking Sales of FEZiBO's Standing Desk Unveiled: A Long-waited Ergonomic Change To The Remote Working Trend In Germany | DÜSSELDORF, Germany, Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FEZiBO, an international ergonomic furniture brand, has recently released its sales results, disclosing a quadrupled sales by 394% of standing desks, also known as height adjustable or sit-... |
31.07.2022 | Вейп. Кто и чем травит наших детей | Не доверяйте подросткам! И не будете разочарованы
Недавно я нашёл у своего сына вейп, если кто не знает – это такой ингалятор или микрокальян для вдыхания никотина, при выдохе создаётся огромное облако пара, которое обычно имеет фруктовый з... |
18.09.2020 | How the CDC and others are failing Black women during childbirth | The alarming number of deaths of Black women during childbirth and soon afterward once gained little national attention. That changed, partly because of the high-profile deaths of Dr. Shalon Irving and Kira Johnson, and and the delayed resp... |
08.06.2018 | Feel More Valuable: 3 Ways to Raise Your Self-Worth | June 8, 2018 6 min read
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Whether in business or your personal life, feelings of unworthiness can hamper your ability to shine. When we don't perceive ourselves as worthy, we tend... |
11.04.2016 | Experts debate: Do healthy people need an aspirin a day? | Some healthy men and women should take aspirin every day to ward off heart attack, stroke, and colorectal cancer. That’s the final recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) after more than a year of study and lively... |
24.02.2016 | The 40% Rule: A Navy SEAL’s Secret to Mental Toughness | This piece originally appeared on The Hustle.
99% of people who start a marathon finish. It’s a surprising number, I know, but there’s a reason that it’s so high. It’s called the 40% Rule, a concept used by Navy SEALs to increase mental tou... |
16.11.2015 | Scientist Bans Use Of His Software By 'Immigrant-Friendly' Countries, So Journal Retracts Paper About His Software | Retractions of scientific papers are by their nature quite dramatic — the decision to withdraw recognition in this very public way is never taken lightly, especially given all the work that goes into writing a paper. But the specialist site... |
19.10.2015 | The battle for open access is far from over | Monday October 19 marks the beginning of the eighth Open Access (OA) week, a global event to highlight all things open access.
It also marks three years since the Australasian Open Access Support Group (AOASG) – a coalition of nine Australi... |
19.10.2015 | Battle for open access is far from over | - |
25.09.2015 | NHS-approved health apps put patient privacy and health at risk, says study | Flickr reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating
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23.09.2015 | Drinking Too Much Coffee Won't Make Your Heartbeat Irregular | Anyone who's had a coffee-induced anxiety attack and sworn that they've felt their heart actually skip a beat will find little comfort in a recent article published by online journal BMC Medicine.
The study looked at the link between coffee... |
22.09.2015 | Your Mental Health Suffers When You Don't Eat Enough Fruits and Vegetables | When you're in the throes of a clinical depression, a few slices of pizza or a buttery chardonnay may seem like the ideal antidote. But research—and real life—have repeatedly shown that carbs and booze only make things worse.
According to a... |
07.09.2015 | Can you be allergic to your Wi-Fi? | - |
30.08.2014 | How The Digital Revolution Can Fix Scientific Publishing And Speed Up Discoveries | Daniel Marovitz Contributor
Editor’s note: Daniel Marovitz is CEO of Faculty of 1000. Prior to that, he was the CEO and co-founder of buzzumi, a cloud, enterprise software company.
Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big ... |
30.07.2014 | Using Spreadsheets In Bioinformatics Can Corrupt Data, Changing Gene Names Into Dates | A few years back, people were rather disturbed to find out about the famous Excel bug, whereby the multiplication of two numbers in Microsoft’s spreadsheet gave the wrong number. It turns out there are other circumstances in which Excel (an... |
09.06.2014 | You've been diagnosed with cancer. Your treatment costs a fortune. This site can help | Dena Stern is tall, beautiful, and smiling. She waved as she hurriedly walked towards me on a gorgeous late afternoon by San Francisco’s embarcadero area. You really wouldn’t know that she had recently survived breast cancer and is now work... |
28.04.2014 | First efficacy trial of Athersys stem cell therapy yields disappointing interim results. So what now? | Cleveland-based Athersys (NASDAQ: ATHX) released the interim results today for the Phase 2 study it’s conducting with Pfizer. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study has enrolled 88 ulcerative colitis patients in the U.S., Ca... |
04.02.2014 | Solving for Successful Shared Decision Making | Q: What are some overall findings of groups that have done research? What was their methodology?
A: Research has shown that SDM is problematic if it means a lot more time spent per patient, and there are challenges to capturing patient pref... |
29.01.2014 | The pros and cons of the use of text messages between healthcare providers and patients | As a healthcare provider, do you give your personal mobile number if a patient asks for it? Why or why not?
Dr. Remo Aguilar (@bonedoc) of #HealthXPh wrote about this very question in 2011 here. Has his answer changed since then? We will fi... |
25.01.2014 | Mike Taylor's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | Mike Taylor here, and it’s my pleasure to be your Posts Of The Week host. By day I’m a computer programmer, working for Index Data, the world’s tiniest multinational software house, with a portfolio mostly made up of free software. At night... |
01.09.2013 | Patrón Zone: Study Finds That Musicians Reference Top-Shelf Drinks Most | via TipsyCake Chicago/Creative Commons
Drake learned on his last album that "Hennessy and enemies is one hell of a mixture," but researchers have learned something else about Henn: musicians reference it more in their lyrics more ... |
19.05.2013 | The gaming headset that (literally) shocks your brain to attention | The foc.us headset.
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16.05.2013 | Cambridge firm uses next-generation DNA sequencing to detect more mutations in carrier screening | Carrier screening has been around for a while, and many women undergo screening before or during pregnancy for certain hereditary disorders associated with their ethnic background. The Associated Press in 2010 found that many inherited dise... |
01.04.2013 | Biotechnology firm sets out to improve adherence with drug to reduce schizophrenia symptoms | The drug combines 5-HT2A — serotonin receptors — with dopamine receptor phosphoprotein modulation and serotonin reuptake inhibition — which acts like an antidepressant –,according to Intra Cellular’s website. It aims to produce a more perso... |
11.03.2013 | Don't overdo the bacon, sausage, and salami: study | Bacon lovers, beware. A large-scale new study finds that anyone who eats over 40 grams a day of sausage products or other kinds of processed meat are asking for trouble.
Consuming sausage, bacon, or ham daily increases your risk of mortalit... |
12.07.2012 | How will EMRs of the future use clinical decision support tools? | With alert fatigue threatening to infiltrate the electronic medical records systems, EMRs of the future will take a more streamlined, personalized approach to the way they use clinical decision support tools.
That was one of the conclusions... |
27.03.2012 | 'Spit Happens' at Johns Hopkins: saliva saves lives, explains stress, and promotes science | 'Spit Happens' at Johns Hopkins: saliva saves lives, explains stress, and promotes science
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Saliva is the central research for Salimetrics founder Professor Douglas Granger at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience R... |
27.02.2011 | Computer scientist tracks autism and mental illness with EEGs | By Nancy Fliesler
EEG signals may reflect underlying brain connectivity patterns in autism. This brain has less dense local clusters linked by long-range connections, which may represent a normal pattern. The brain at right has denser, more... |
28.01.2010 | Does evolution always lead to bigger brains? | Does evolution always lead to bigger brains?
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The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham. Their work helps so... |
01.09.2009 | Playing Tetris could be good for your brain, study says | I can hear the refrain around the world: “See, Mom, I told you so.”
Playing the video game Tetris can rewire your brain to make it more efficient, a new study says. The Mind Research Network is announcing today the findings of a study about... |
01.09.2009 | Playing Tetris could be good for your brain, study says | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
I can hear the refrain around the world: “See, Mom, I told you so.”
Playing the video game Tetris can rewire your brain to make it more... |
06.08.2009 | German study links debt, obesity and access to healthy food | The current financial squeeze has implications for household spending, and people may borrow more to make ends meet. In Germany, where the new study was conducted in 2006-7, 7.6 per cent of households (more than 6 million people) are over-i... |
27.02.2008 | Study: Cell phone radiation affects protein expression | Here it is, your daily dose of semi-rational fear. A bunch of females (two Jettas full) had a patch of skin exposed to an hour of 900MHz radiation from GSM phones. The researchers then checked out skin samples and found that there were seve... |
21.05.2007 | Bar Harbor BioTechnology raises first round | Bar Harbor BioTechnology, a Bar Harbor, Me., developer of DNA and RNA analysis equipment, raised a “multimillion dollar” first round of funding, VentureWire reports. The round was lead by Borealis Ventures, and also involved Village Venture... |
26.09.2004 | New folic evidence favours food fortification | The proportion of babies born with neural tube defects such as spina bifida in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador dropped by 78 per cent after the Canadian government in 1998 directed that folic acid must be added to flour, cornmeal ... |
- | Solving for Successful Shared Decision Making | A Q&A with Geri Lynn Baumblatt, Editorial Director of Emmi Solutions.
Shared decision making (SDM) is an important issue in today’s healthcare industry but implementation of the actual practice can be challenging. We sat down with Geri ... |
- | Biotechnology firm sets out to improve adherence with drug to reduce schizophrenia symptoms | A biopharmaceutical company scheduled to complete a Phase 2 study this spring for its treatment to reduce schizophrenia symptoms has raised $18.3 million in a fresh round of fundraising, according to a Form D filed with Securities and Excha... |
- | Cambridge firm uses next-generation DNA sequencing to detect more mutations in carrier screening | When a company sets out to enter a market inhabited by heavyweights like LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics, it better have something good. Good Start Genetics has applied next-generation DNA sequencing to existing knowledge and testing methods ... |
- | The pros and cons of the use of text messages between healthcare providers and patients | The Philippines is the Texting Capital of the World. Check out this infographic, which says that in 2009, Filipino subscribers sent an average of 600 text messages a month vs 420 for their US counterparts.
Imagine then the possibilities for... |
- | First efficacy trial of Athersys stem cell therapy yields disappointing interim results. So what now? | Edited to include comments from CEO.
Halfway through its first large-scale efficacy trial, Athersys’s experimental stem cell therapy did not provide significant benefit to patients with moderate-to-severe ulcerative colitis.
But the company... |
- | How will EMRs of the future use clinical decision support tools? | With alert fatigue threatening to infiltrate the electronic medical records systems, EMRs of the future will take a more streamlined, personalized approach to the way they use clinical decision support tools.
That was one of the conclusions... |