News tagged with principal investigators


Political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength

Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Psychology & Psychiatry created May 15, 2013 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nurse understaffing increases infection risk in VLBW babies

Very low birth weight infants, those weighing less than 3.25 pounds, account for half of infant deaths in the United States each year, yet a new study released in today's issue of JAMA Pediatrics documents that these critic ...

Pediatrics created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Top patient safety strategies detailed in new AHRQ report

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new report, Making Health Care Safer II, which identifies the top 10, evidence-based patient safety strategies available to clinicians.

Health created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

LoFreq: Ultrafast detection of microbe and cancer cell mutations

Scientists at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have developed a novel technique to precisely monitor and study the evolution of micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria. This is an extremely important capability ...

Medical research created Mar 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green tea extract interferes with the formation of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the brain.

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Mar 05, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Daily HIV prevention approaches didn't work for African women in the VOICE study

Results of a major HIV prevention trial suggest that daily use of a product – whether a vaginal gel or an oral tablet – does not appear to be the right approach for preventing HIV in young, unmarried African women.

HIV & AIDS created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adaptable software, tools aim to help rheumatoid arthritis patients

UT Arlington researchers are creating individualized, patient-centered rehabilitation software systems that will promote and support physical therapy for people with rheumatoid arthritis.

Arthritis & Rheumatism created Mar 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of brain cooling and clot-busting drug therapy for stroke receives FDA OK to expand

An international multicenter clinical trial led by a Cedars-Sinai neurologist on the combination of brain cooling and "clot-busting" drug therapy after stroke has received Food and Drug Administration approval to expand from ...

Neuroscience created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

REVIVE-IT study to examine earlier device use for patients with heart failure

The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will gain a new partner as it commences its study of earlier device use for patients with congestive heart failure.

Cardiology created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new way of looking at Prader-Willi Syndrome

An Australian study reveals that people with the rare genetic disorder known as Prader-Willi Syndrome may have an impaired autonomic nervous system. This discovery opens up a new way of looking at the insatiable appetite ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Significant relationship between mortality and telomere length discovered

A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect ...

Genetics created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global genome effort seeks genetic roots of disease

By decoding the genomes of more than 1,000 people whose homelands stretch from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas, scientists have compiled the largest and most detailed catalog yet of human genetic ...

Genetics created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Statistical method will analyze important, poorly studied areas of human genome

(Medical Xpress)—Each year, more and more pieces of the human genome puzzle fall into place, but large holes still remain. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hope to fill in many more pieces ...

Genetics created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Genetically engineering immune systems to fight melanoma: Clinical trial launched

Loyola University Medical Center has launched the first clinical trial in the Midwest of an experimental melanoma treatment that genetically engineers a patient's immune system to fight the deadly cancer.

Cancer created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New study shows PTSD symptoms reduced in combat-exposed military via integrative medicine

Healing touch combined with guided imagery (HT+GI) provides significant clinical reductions in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms for combat-exposed active duty military, according to a study released in the September ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2