Reporters and bloggers are invited to attend Nutrition 2019, the flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition. The meeting will be held June 8-11, 2019 at the Baltimore Convention Center. #Nutrition2019 is your source for high-quality nutrition research and news. Register for a complimentary press pass or follow along virtually to get the latest…
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IMAGE: Salk scientists identify possible healing compound in Yerba santa. From left: Pamela Maher and Wolfgang Fischer. view more Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA—(February 20, 2019) The medicinal powers of aspirin, digitalis, and the anti-malarial artemisinin all come from plants. A Salk Institute discovery of a potent neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory chemical in a native California shrub…
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DALLAS, February 20, 2019 — Thirty minutes of morning exercise lowers blood pressure for the rest of the day among older men and women who are overweight or obese. And women who take brief, frequent breaks from sitting throughout the day can enhance the blood pressure benefits of morning exercise even more, according to new…
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NEW YORK, NY — The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has selected fourteen outstanding scientific research projects for ASPIRE Awards. Designed to answer key proof-of-concept questions in a short timeframe, the ASPIRE (Accelerating Scientific Platforms and Innovative Research) program funds high risk, high reward approaches to solving complex problems in cancer research that tend to…
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Try as you might, some events cannot be remembered. Known in psychology as memory blocking, the phenomenon has remained elusive since first described more than half a century ago. Now Donnelly Centre researchers have found that blocking is not due to problems with forming memories, as previously thought, but with memory recall—in worms at least.…
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Credit: ©Dr. Laura Dean A female stickleback fish, nick-named ‘Mary’, has produced offspring from eggs that appear to have been fertilised while they were still inside her, according to scientists at the University of Nottingham. The team of researchers from the School of Life Sciences collected Mary on an expedition to the Outer Hebrides to…
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PITTSBURGH— Physicians will be able to predict which of their patients with severe asthma are likely to benefit from treatment with systemic corticosteroids — and which might only suffer their side effects — with help from a dozen clinical variables researchers have identified using machine learning techniques. Physicians already have some clues about which patients…
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IMAGE: Professor Declan Bates. view more Credit: University of Warwick Mechanical ventilation of children in intensive care units is often necessary, but can damage the lungs of critically ill patients It’s possible to change ventilator settings to reduce the risk of damage without putting child patients at risk, according to engineering researchers at the University of…
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Image Research shows that many members of Gen Z, those born in 1995 and after, feel strongly that «gender doesn’t define a person as much as it used to.»CreditAgnès Ricart Welcome to In Her Words, where women rule the headlines. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Let me know what you…
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Image Virginie Viard, Karl Lagerfeld and Hudson Kroenig (Mr. Lagerfeld’s godson) at the Chanel Metiers d’Art show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December.CreditLandon Nordeman for The New York Times PARIS — If there was any constant to a Chanel runway show, where the set replicates a vast autumnal forest one season and a…
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