Scientists want to provide the users of prosthetic limbs the ability to feel what they are touching or experience the comforting perception of holding hands.
A pilot study suggests the hallucinogen psilocybin may be feasible and safe to administer to patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety, with promising effects on mood, according to a report published online today that will appear in the January 2011 print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
A group of University of Iowa business researchers is looking at new ways of developing economic and financial models to more accurately predict stock returns in the same way that meteorologists forecast the weather.
Four key studies now propose a new theory about how cancer cells grow and survive, allowing researchers to design better diagnostics and therapies to target high-risk cancer patients. These studies were conducted by a large team of researchers at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center. *VIDEO*
New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the “gateway effect” of marijuana – that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults – is overblown.
A new study from the University of Haifa has found an additional link between Light At Night (LAN) and cancer. The researchers say their study results show that suppression of melatonin due to exposure to LAN is linked to the worrying rise in the number of cancer patients.
When it comes to news releases, the cat is out of the bag. News releases have been visible by the public for at least 18 years, but an entirely new level of transparency is emerging with social media.
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Proponents of organic farming often speak of nature’s balance in ways that sound almost spiritual, prompting criticism that their views are unscientific and naïve. At the other end of the spectrum are those who see farms as battlefields where insect pests and plant diseases must be vanquished with the magic bullets of modern agriculture: pesticides, fungicides and the like.
People with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes appear to be at an increased risk of developing plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research published in the August 25, 2010, issue of Neurology.
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