Research conducted at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs proves not everything goes downhill when it comes to aging. Older adults exhibit a better balance than younger adults in the way they process emotional information from the environment.
Cutting junior doctors’ working hours and giving them more rest breaks won’t by itself reduce fatigue or the attendant risk of error, concludes a study published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Using advanced brain imaging techniques, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have watched how humans use both lower and higher brain processes to learn novel tasks, an advance they say may help speed up the teaching of new skills as well as offer strategies to retrain people with perceptual deficits due to autism.
The Australian Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing, Christopher Pyne, has welcomed news that the Tasmanian State Government has heeded his call to ban smoking in cars while children are present.
A featured paper in the Feb. 14 issue of Nature Cancer Gene Therapy demonstrates that cancer cells in the liver are excellent targets for gene therapy using adenoviral vectors, based upon a fundamental new understanding of the differences between cancerous and normal liver cells. The findings signal a new way to treat cancers that have spread to the liver, such as metastatic cancers of the colon and breast.
Majority of doctors “reported objections to abortion for failed contraception” and see the value in explaining their own moral convictions to patients, revealed by a New England Journal of Medicine article — Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices.
Drivers who spend a significant amount of time in their cars might find themselves in the fast lane for developing future skin cancers, according to new research examining the incidence of left-sided skin cancers in patients and driving trends of adults seen at a Midwestern university dermatology clinic.
Rats that rode in a truck on the New York State Thruway between Rochester and Buffalo and were exposed to the same highway pollution that motorists encounter, showed a drop in heart rate and effects on the autonomic nervous system, according to a study published this month in the journal Inhalation Toxicology.
What do mutual grooming, politeness, priestly celibacy, military heroism, car insurance, and overwork have in common? All are probable examples of the recently discovered evolutionary mechanism called “reciprocal altruism.”
Asia’s economic boom including countries like India and China has caused a surge in car and motorcycle sales, undercutting efforts to promote public transport in the region and clean up its dirty skies.