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Suicides among U.S. children appear to be on the rise after a 15-year decline, and the trend may owe, in part, to fewer teens being prescribed antidepressants, a new study suggests.
Researchers thought a spike in youth suicides in 2004 may have been an anomaly. But the new study found the increase in suicides continued during […]
A mix of preventative agents, such as those found in concentrated black raspberries, may effectively inhibit cancer development, according to a new study.
According to the research, black raspberries can more effectively slow down the process of cancer development than single agents aimed at shutting down a particular gene.
To reach the conclusion, researchers at the Ohio […]
The makers of the type 2 diabetes drug Byetta reported Tuesday the deaths of four more people who’d been taking the medication.
The announcement by Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. came a week after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that two Byetta users had died of acute pancreatitis, a condition that can cause […]
A new study, by research chemists at the University of Warwick in the UK, has challenged a century old rule of chemistry that defined how quickly key chemicals can pass across cell walls, thus having major implications for the development and testing of many future drugs.
The new observations of the Warwick researchers suggest that the […]
U.S. nonprofit hospitals face mounting pressures that could adversely affect their bottomlines, according to reports released on Monday by Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.The rating agencies cited various factors affecting the hospitals, including a weaker economy, increased debt issuance for capital projects, and higher costs associated with the collapse of the […]
A team of archaeologists has saved a 3,500-year-old structure in an island off the coast of Scotland, thought to have been used as a sauna, from destruction by the sea.
According to a report in the Scotsman, the building, which dates from between 1500BC and 1200BC, was unearthed on the Shetland island of Bressay eight years […]
Italian researchers are developing gadgets that can drift like plankton, which they believe may help improve their understanding of the world’s oceans.
Experts at the University of Genoa say that their “smart plankton”, which will carry sensors and communicate using flashing lights, will drift through the ocean collecting data.
Davide Brizzolara, a researcher associated with the project, […]
If kids and young adults become diabetic, blame it on parents, a new study suggests, ascribing it to an unusual form of inheritance in the US.
Researchers looked at the effects of a diet high in saturated fat on mice and their offspring. Expectedly, they found that a high-fat diet induced type 2 diabetes in the […]
A scientist has built a software that generates personalised maps showing only relevant information, and carefully chosen views of selected landmarks, which could help tourists find their way more easily.
According to a report in New Scientist, Floraine Grabler at the University of California in Berkeley has built software to let people generate maps for places […]