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A new study on mental health in Afghanistan looks beyond the effects of its 12-year war and identifies the root causes of mental distress and anxiety among its citizens: poverty and vulnerability.

Iowa State's Bong Wie is leading a team that's developing a system to protect the planet from asteroids. The work has attracted $600,000 in NASA support. NASA has also asked Wie to show off his studies at NASA's April 17 Technology Day on the Hill.

The wide consensus that health care spending poses a threat to the nation's fiscal solvency has led to the championing of 'value' as a goal of health care reform efforts. But the divergence of opinions between patients and physicians on the meaning ...

Twenty early-career materials scientists and engineers engage in leadership opportunities at the TMS 2013 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas, this week.

At the Keystone Symposium 'New Frontiers in Neurodegenerative Disease Research,' held 4-7 February in Santa Fe, New Mexico, researchers explored the processes that lead to a variety of diseases, including Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's disease . ...

People with multiple sclerosis who have cognitive problems, or problems with memory, attention, and concentration, have more damage to areas of the brain involved in cognitive processes than people with MS who do not have cognitive problems, ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is among just 11 hospitals nationally to be singled out by the Hitachi Foundation's Pioneer Employer Hospitals Initiative, a program based on the idea that employers who do good, do well.

Findings show that measurements of carbamylated albumin may help doctors in monitoring dialysis patients; further suggests that amino acid supplementation could help offset carbamylation process

Poll shows large majority of Texans support background checks for all gun purchases, but they are not eager to change existing gun laws.

Penn Medicine Study Uncovers Novel Risk Factors that will Help to Improve Lung Transplant Risk Assessment

UCLA scientists have discovered a new genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease by screening people's DNA and then using an advanced type of scan to visualize their brains' connections.

Neutron stars, the ultra-dense cores left behind after massive stars collapse, contain the densest matter known in the Universe outside of a black hole. New results from Chandra and other X-ray telescopes have provided one of the most reliable ...

A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the National University of Singapore , revealed in a new study, for the first time, the presence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus in amphibians sampled in Singapore. And the American ...

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified patterns of epigenomic diversity that not only allow plants to adapt to various environments, but could also benefit crop production and the study of human diseases.

Working with a multidisciplinary consortium of 19 researchers from nine institutions, Monell scientists have provided critical information to identify CALHM1, a channel in the walls of taste receptor cells, as a necessary component in the process ...

A team of investigators from nine institutions discovered how ATP â€

Sandia's network pulls together 265 buildings and 13,000 computer network ports and brings high-speed communication to some of the labs' most remote technical areas for the first time. It will save an estimated $20 million over five years through ...

A pair of studies tells the tale of how a neuroscientist at Mayo Clinic in Florida helped to discover the first African-American family to have inherited the rare movement disorder dystonia, which causes repetitive muscle contractions and twisting, ...

Connecting with alumni, networking with peers great way to jump-start career for graduating students

Columbia University Medical Center researchers have found the first evidence that selective activation of the dentate gyrus, a portion of the hippocampus, can reduce anxiety without affecting learning. The findings suggest that therapies that ...