Taking fish oil or omega-3 fatty acids during pregnancy can benefit unborn child and increases the child’s hand-to-eye co-ordination, revealed by an Australian research study, published in the British journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Five new-born, premature babies have been found to be carrying a strain of a hospital super bug and one infant has died in the same unit – the neonatal ward at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
Researchers from NIST, the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have demonstrated a deceptively simple technique for chemically bonding single strands of DNA to gold. The technique offers a convenient way to control the density of the DNA strands on the substrate, which could be important for optimizing DNA sensor arrays.
The New York City trans fat ban is a step in the right direction, but the regulation that requires some restaurants to display calories as prominently as price is just as important. Also missing in the discussion? Replacing trans fat will saturated fat would be problematic.
New studies on nutrition and HIV from researchers at Tufts University in Boston find that a high percentage of people with HIV have the same two characteristics of metabolic syndrome, and that people with HIV on HAART may be at risk for zinc deficiency.
New research explains how movie theaters may increase profits by moving away from uniform pricing to variable pricing. The study is being published in an upcoming issue of the International Review of Law & Economics.
Psychological interventions for chronic low back pain are effective, a new review of studies has found. Not only do these approaches improve psychological outcomes such as depression and health-related quality of life, they also reduce patients’ experience of pain.
A new study examined brain tissue acquired at autopsy and found that VENs were devastated in FTD. Von Economo neurons (VENs) are uniquely shaped brain cells that seem to have evolved in a select group of socially complex species: great apes, humans, and, as reported last month, whales.
Surgeons are taller and more handsome than physicians, finds a study in this week’s Christmas issue of the BMJ. Doctors at the University of Barcelona Hospital noticed that the tallest and most handsome male students were more likely to go for surgery, and the shortest (and perhaps not so good looking) ones were more likely to become physicians.
Botox could be used to relieve writers’ cramp, a study has suggested. The findings were published in “Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.”