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New algorithm more accurately predicts life expectancy after heart failure

By Guest PostOctober 16, 2018Healthalgorithm, heart failure, heart transplant, life expectancy, trees of predictors

UCLA research could help health care providers make better use of life-saving resources

A new algorithm developed by UCLA researchers more accurately predicts which people will survive heart failure, and for how long, whether or not they receive a heart transplant. The algorithm would allow doctors to make more personalized assessments of people who are awaiting heart transplants, which in turn could enable health care providers to make better use of limited life-saving resources and potentially reduce health care costs. (more…)

Where the brain processes spiritual experiences

By Guest PostOctober 14, 2018Healthaddictive disorders, brain, lisa miller, marc potenza, parietal cortex, process, spiritual experience

Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense of connection to something greater than oneself. (more…)

Gefaltetes Gift

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2018Healthandreas schlosser, darm giftstoffe, darmflora, gefaltetes gift, klaus aktories, therapie bakterieller infektionen

Forscher zeigen, wie die Toxine des resistenten Bakteriums Clostridium difficile in Darmzellen eindringen

Die Therapie bakterieller Infektionen mit Antibiotika schädigt häufig die Darmflora und führt zu Durchfall und Darmentzündungen. Oftmals sind Bakterien mit dem Namen Clostridium difficile, die gegen Antibiotika resistent sind, dafür verantwortlich. (more…)

Fat-sensing hormone helps control tadpole metamorphosis

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2018Healthfat sensing hormone, metamorphosis, robert denver, tadpole

ANN ARBOR — When tadpoles are but tadpoles, they’re voracious eaters, chomping down all of the plant matter in their paths. (more…)

Study reveals vision’s role in vowel perception

By Guest PostOctober 2, 2018Health, Scienceconfiguration, directional asymmetry, matthew masapollo, motion, role, speaker, vision, vowel perception

In a study based at Brown University, researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker’s lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — For all talkers, except perhaps the very best ventriloquists, the production of speech is accompanied by visible facial movements. Because speech is more than just sound, researchers set out to ascertain the exact visual information people seek when distinguishing vowel sounds. (more…)

UCLA study finds that more than 78,000 U.S. children are – or have been – married

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2018Healthalissa koski, children, marriage, marriage of minors, minimum age

A new report by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health researchers found that approximately 78,400 children in the U.S. are or have been married.

Although all states in the U.S. set 18 as the legal age minimum for marriage, exceptions to the minimum can be granted in every state under varying conditions, including parental consent and official approval. (more…)

Bed Bug Histamines Are Substantial, Persistent in Infested Homes

By Guest PostSeptember 30, 2018Healthbed bug, coby schal, histamines, inflammation, zachary devries

New research findings could turn perceptions of the already despised bed bug from nuisance pest into medically important threat. A study from North Carolina State University shows that histamine levels are substantially higher in homes infested by bed bugs than in pest-free homes, and that these histamine levels persist for months – even if the bed bugs have been eliminated from the home. (more…)

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