Prescription painkillers are responsible for more fatal overdoses in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined. And while most states have programs to curb abuse and addiction, a new report from Brandeis University shows that many states do not fully analyze the data they collect...
The genomic tumult within tumor cells has provided scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard with clues to an entirely new class of genes that may serve as an Achilles' heel for many forms of cancer. As reported in the Aug. 17 issue of the journal...
People with obstructive sleep apnea are more likely to stick to prescribed treatment when a partner or parent is involved with their treatment, according to a team of sleep researchers. Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the upper airway collapses during sleep. It is the most common type of...
The American Red Cross is reminding Americans about travel safety as the colder weather arrives. The organization warns of several feet of snow and many inches of rain and high winds that are predicted to hit a wide swathe of the country, from coastal Oregon to Montana. Heavy rains and...
Bioengineering the application of engineering principles to understand and treat medical conditions is delivering innovative solutions for diagnosing and repairing damage to the brain caused by a traumatic injury. A broad sample of these new, cutting-edge techniques is presented in a special...
Scientists are discovering promising approaches to treating pain, one of the most common and debilitating neurological complaints, according to research released at Neuroscience 2011, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain...
I am writing a research paper for my AP english class and i have and interesting idea for a topic. I want to do it on whether extraterrestrial life exists (i believe it does). However, all the information I have found so far is pretty much the same. I was thinking on specifically writing it...
I want to start running and I have no clothes even mildly suitable for keeping me warm and dry while exercising (I don't even have a pair of sweatpants). I'm looking for something cheap, but I'm wary of buying inadequate apparel that will leave me miserable and hating my new source of physical...
Scientists from Freie Universität Berlin and the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence led by biochemist Volker Haucke in collaboration with colleagues from Australia and the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) in Berlin have developed small molecules that inhibit the internalization...
The 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 is this Sunday, so, of course, Indy has been popping up in the news a quite a bit this week. To get you caught up, here are some of the stories emerging online ahead of the race.
A new treatment regimen for patients with metastatic colon cancer appears to offer clinical benefit even when used after multiple other treatments have failed, say research physicians at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical Center. The research...
While VCU has established itself as this year's ultimate NCAA tournament Cinderella story and gained lots of support from casual fans around the country, Las Vegas sports books are hoping that the Rams' run ends short of a national title.
"VCU is the one team that we don't want to win it,"...
The combined mass of the bike and the rider is 81 kg.
(b) Find the initial kinetic energy of the system.
(c) The rider coasts up the hill. Assuming that there is no friction, at what height will the bike come to rest?
In early 2010, Pennsylvania nursing homes and hospitals reported an increased number of cases of gastrointestinal illness which are consistent with recurring outbreaks of the highly contagious norovirus and norovirus-like illnesses nationwide. With a new norovirus season approaching, the...
They are really trotting them out tonight.
They're even talking about Clinton's non-existent fictional budget surplus that never materialized.
How desperate can they get, in their final hours?
Women & Infants Hospital and Latino Public Radio have announced the results of ESCUCHE - Evaluating the Spanish Radio Community's Understanding of Clinical Research and Health Topics - at a summit entitled "Innovations to Improve Health and Science Literacy." With the involvement of an active...
Nearly 10 years after FDA granted it approval, the debate surrounding the abortion medication mifepristone continues to be divisive, the AP/New York Times reports. The medication -- originally known as RU-486 and now marketed as Mifeprex -- was approved by FDA on Sept. 28, 2000. Since then, it...
New York Blood Center (NYBC), serving more than 20 million people in New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, calls upon our communities to please donate blood and platelets, as the East Coast braces for Hurricane Earl. While donations from Rh-negative types are especially...
Due to the potential threat from Hurricane Earl, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing recommendations for residents in the American Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and on the mainland from North Carolina to Maine. FSIS urges those in the projected storm path to watch the...
= 30.0 (Part B figure) . The co? As shown, a unicyclist traveling at = 14.5 approaches a hill inclined at = 30.0 . The combined mass of the unicyclist and unicycle is 86.5 ; the unicycle's wheel has a mass of = 6.50 , and it has a radius of = 0.80 . If the wheel does not slip, and the...