Archive: 06/06/2017

Mother's personality can affect child's mental health

Scientists have looked at over 8,000 parents and children in Children of the 90s and found that the children of women with personality traits associated with emotional and relationship difficulties were at greater risk of ...

Jun 6, 2017

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Listening to the signals

If something tickles our nose, we sneeze. Behind this simple biological output lies a cascade of cell communication. In an interview with uni:view, Manuela Baccarini, molecular biologist at Max F. Perutz Laboratories, explains ...

Jun 6, 2017

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Unreliable food supplies may lead to obesity

Obesity could result from not always having enough food rather than always having too much, our latest research shows. And understanding the evolutionary logic governing our guts helps explain global patterns of obesity and ...

Jun 6, 2017

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Illusions influence our predictions about how well we'll remember in the future

Every day we make decisions based on how we think our memory works. A student decides how long to study for an exam. A shopper decides whether or not to make a grocery list. An FBI director decides whether to write the contents ...

Jun 6, 2017

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Powerful new opioids, overdose deaths worry EU drug agency

Potent new synthetic opioids that mimic the effects of heroin and morphine are a growing health threat in the European Union, the bloc's drug agency said Tuesday.

Jun 6, 2017

How neurons use crowdsourcing to make decisions

How do we make decisions? Or rather, how do our neurons make decisions for us? Do individual neurons have a strong say or is the voice in the neural collective?

Jun 6, 2017

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Bed sharing, maternal smoking raise risk of sudden unexpected death in infancy

The combination of bed sharing and maternal smoking is extremely hazardous for infants, giving rise to a 32-fold increase in the risk of sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI), new research has found.

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Study identifies potential health care 'double jeopardy' for minority patients

A new study sheds light on the depth of health care disparities faced by minority populations in the United States. The findings suggest a possible "double jeopardy" for black and Hispanic patients: Not only has it been shown ...

Jun 6, 2017

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The lack of black men in medicine

In the dozen years it has been on television, the fictional medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" has garnered numerous awards. But the show's biggest accomplishment may be the diversity of the actors, cast as doctors using a color-blind ...

Jun 6, 2017

Study compares cancer drug cost, benefit

Queen's University researcher Christopher Booth reveals the price of new cancer therapies is not associated with treatment effectiveness.

Jun 6, 2017

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