Psychology & Psychiatry
Why your best idea may be your second favorite
Michelangelo reportedly said the job of every sculptor is to discover the statue inside the stone, then work around it. Liberate the form.
Dec 13, 2019
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Health
Using escape games to get adults and children to think and change their diets
A new food education project is using the increasingly popular escape room idea to teach children and adults about balanced diets.
Dec 11, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New translation system for humanitarian assistance
The success of a psychiatric or psychotherapeutic treatment decisively depends on the quality of communication between the therapist and patient. In the case of refugees, this communication is often impeded by language barriers. ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Turning 'junk' DNA into gold
Mining the rich uncharted territory of the genome or genetic material of a cancer cell has yielded gold for Princess Margaret scientists: new protein targets for drug development against prostate cancer.
Nov 15, 2019
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Health
Diet trials often amend their outcome measures as they go
Ever wonder why science can't settle simple diet-related questions? In part it's because most clinical trials involving diet, even those published in good journals, lack the rigor of most drug trials. They're often small, ...
Nov 14, 2019
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Health
Project to answer last wishes spreads successfully
New research led by McMaster University researchers has found a program that honours dying patients by fulfilling end of life wishes can be powerful, affordable and sustainable in many settings.
Nov 11, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers partner in vaccine project to tackle major killer of African children
A team of University of Otago researchers is part of a major new international vaccine research project to help tackle devastating Salmonella bloodstream infections which are killing thousands of people in sub-Saharan Africa ...
Nov 1, 2019
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Genetics
Important gene variants found in certain African populations
In the nearly 20 years since the Human Genome Project was completed, experts in genetic variants increasingly have raised concerns about the overemphasis on studying people of European descent when performing large population ...
Oct 31, 2019
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Neuroscience
Groundbreaking study improves understanding of brain function
Researchers at KAUST are officially one step closer to understanding the brain and its function.
Oct 29, 2019
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Listening to 'noisy knees' to diagnose osteoarthritis: The first human cohort study
A new way of diagnosing and assessing knee osteoarthritis (OA) has moved a step closer with a major study paving the way for its use in research and clinical practice.
Oct 16, 2019
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