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Medical Xpress / Rapid response to heat waves: Using electronic health records to protect patients in near-real time
As summer heat waves grow longer and more dangerous, public health officials often must wait months to learn who and how many people were harmed. A new study published in Nature Health suggests that delays are no longer necessary, ...
Phys.org / Americans are more likely to support religious exemption requests that align with their political beliefs
The United States Constitution protects the free exercise of religion, meaning that religious exemptions can sometimes be granted if a law infringes on someone's sincerely held religious beliefs. But how do people decide ...
Phys.org / What happens next with bird flu? An expert explains why monitoring matters
The lethal H5N1 strain of avian influenza is rapidly spreading along the coast of southern Australia, where it has killed thousands of wild birds and infected at least two long-nosed fur seals.
Medical Xpress / Next-generation RNA approach provides hope for genetic diseases missed by current drugs
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a next-generation RNA therapeutic approach with the potential to treat a wide range of genetic diseases that share certain disease-causing mutations. The work advances ...
Medical Xpress / 2011 to 2021 saw heart failure-related hospitalization rise in CKD
For patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), rates of heart failure-related hospitalization increased from 2011 to 2021, according to a study published in the September issue of Kidney International Reports.
Phys.org / Scientists capture first molecular-level images of water reorganization during a reaction crucial for life
Some of nature's most important chemical reactions rely on the coupled movement of negatively and positively charged particles. These processes play central roles in photosynthesis, catalysis and biological energy conversion ...
Tech Xplore / Where is AI headed? Two media theorists from the 1960s can help us figure it out
The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was quite sure how to think about it.
Medical Xpress / Movement reveals shared visual coding rules in mouse and monkey brains
Seeing and moving are directly linked in the brain. When we stand still, the visual scene barely shifts. When we run, by contrast, the environment rushes past, so the signals reaching the eye become more variable and change ...
Medical Xpress / Wearable monitor improves diagnosis of heart rhythm disorders after fainting
Early ECG monitoring initiated in the emergency department (ED) has the potential to transform the care of thousands of patients who visit the ED with unexplained fainting.
Phys.org / Setting limits on phase transitions in the dark energy era
The universe is known to be expanding at an accelerating rate. Physicists typically attribute this acceleration to dark energy, a mysterious component of the universe that exerts negative pressure, causing space to expand ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers develop biomarker score for broken-heart syndrome
Takotsubo syndrome is an acute heart condition that primarily affects postmenopausal women and is often triggered by severe emotional or physical stress. Although it affects about 2% of all patients with suspected heart attacks—and ...
Medical Xpress / An RNA molecule contributes to therapy resistance of triple negative breast cancer
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive type of breast cancer. Chemotherapy before or after surgery remains the standard treatment regimen for stage I–III TNBC. Only a small portion of patients can benefit ...
