Australian Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, announced a $64,000 Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) grant to West Australian based Denta-Med Pty Ltd to market its innovative anti-bacterial dental gel.
Fifteen percent of college students suffered from depression last year, up from 10 percent in 2000, according to The American College Health Association. Mental health professionals on college campuses expect the percentage to rise again this year.
CMU researcher Jon Kelty is interested in learning about the electrical connections in the brain that control a gasp and other breathing patterns in hopes of better understanding a host of human breathing disorders, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
More than one in three HIV positive gay men say they have unprotected sex, reveals a community survey, published ahead of print in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. And almost one in five HIV negative men said that they do the same, the figures show.
Electromagnetic fields do not pose a health hazard to workers in the electrical energy supply industry, suggests a large study of 28,000 people, published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
In the event of a smallpox outbreak in the United States, how long would it take for a vaccine to start protecting Americans by stimulating an immune response? A new national study led by Saint Louis University School of Medicine will attempt to answer this question.
Sleep remains one of the big mysteries in biology. All animals sleep, and people who are deprived of sleep suffer physically, emotionally and intellectually. But nobody knows how sleep restores the brain.
Sizeable literature has shown that as we grow into adulthood, our memory accuracy improves. However, psychologists Charles Brainerd and Valerie Reyna of Cornell University believe that adults may have less acurate memories than children under certain circumstances.
Migraine or chronic headache in teens and young children may boost psychiatric disorders and suicidal tendencies, revealed by the researchers from Taiwan.
Falls from ladders can result in serious injury and affect people of all ages. The general public is at risk for ladder injuries, yet receives little, if any, instruction on ladder use and safety.