Addiction
Why runner's addiction is adding to your injury woes
Each week, millions of people around the world lace up their running shoes, spurred on by the psychological, health and social benefits that running delivers.
Mar 4, 2020
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News tagged with open access
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The hunt for a coronavirus cure is showing how science can change for the better
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared an international public health emergency over the global outbreak of the novel coronavirus. One day later, the Wellcome Trust research charity called for researchers, ...
Feb 25, 2020
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Health
Georgetown tobacco control expert outlines motivations of Altria-Juul deal
The pending deal for Altria to purchase 35% of Juul Labs should serve as a "wake-up call" for the careful monitoring of competition in the nicotine delivery market, and for evaluating how regulations and policies impact cigarette ...
Sep 4, 2019
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Health
Blight-busting demolitions reduced gun injuries, deaths in Detroit neighborhoods
For the past half-decade, Detroit's government and community groups have worked to tear down abandoned houses and other buildings in the city's most blight-stricken neighborhoods, in the name of public safety and quality ...
Aug 2, 2019
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Medical research
Boosting the discovery of new drugs to treat spinal cord injuries using zebrafish
A research team led by Leonor Saúde, Principal Investigator at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM; Lisbon, Portugal), in partnership with the company Technophage SA, has designed a simple and efficient platform that uses ...
Jul 19, 2019
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Surgery
Promising treatment for shoulder pain in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury
A New Jersey team of researchers has reported the successful, long-term relief of chronic refractory shoulder pain in a wheelchair user with spinal cord injury (SCI) following a single injection of autologous, micro-fragmented ...
Jun 12, 2019
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Health
Open data on adolescent health in 41 countries released
A WHO-project on health in the adolescent population is now giving researchers access to data collected in 41 countries worldwide. The data gives insight on matters concerning health, well-being, social environment and health ...
Feb 11, 2016
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Other
New study sheds light on characteristics of the 'predatory' scholarly publishing market
New light is shed on the volume and market characteristics of so-called 'predatory' scholarly journal publishing in a study conducted by researchers from Hanken School of Economics and published in the open access journal ...
Sep 30, 2015
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Genetics
New research finds balance between 'good' and 'bad' bacteria in humans altered
Researchers from Macquarie University released new findings this week about the 'good' and 'bad' bacteria that live inside the human body.
Sep 10, 2015
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Is the amyloid hypothesis the right path to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease?
There is both risk and reward in focusing Alzheimer's disease research on inhibiting amyloid production, according to a new article in Future Science OA. The article reviews the significant body of research proposing that ...
Apr 20, 2015
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