Researchers find worm index closely associated with a nation’s human development index

With the Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2000 coming to an end in 2015, and the new Sustainable Development Goals now in the works to establish a set of targets for the future of international development, experts at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a…
Source: Researchers find worm index closely associated with a nation’s human development index

ResMed launches Lumis series of noninvasive ventilation devices to manage respiratory stability of patients

ResMed (NYSE: RMD) today announced its Lumis™ series of noninvasive ventilation devices that combine personalized, simplified therapy with powerful wireless connected care capabilities. The Lumis series builds upon ResMed’s legacy of innovation as a new option for pat…
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FDA grants tentative approval to Amerigen’s ANDA for generic version of Toviaz

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Waking proteins up from deep sleep to study their motions

In order to carry out their functions, proteins need to move. Scientists at EPFL have developed a new technique to study motions in proteins with unprecedented accuracy. The method, which is based on NMR, freezes proteins down to immobility, then slowly heats them to ‘wake them up’ and restart mo…
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Why We Can’t Take Chipotle’s GMO Announcement All That Seriously

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Chipotle restaurant workers in Miami, Fla., fill orders on Apr. 27, the day that the company claimed it would only use non-GMO ingredients in its food.

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Expanding Medicaid Trims Hospitals’ Costs Of Caring For Uninsured

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St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., is one of the 131 hospitals run by Ascension Health. It’s a not-for-profit, Catholic health care system that treats many low-income patients who can’t pay their bills.

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Drought In Calif. Creates Water Wars Between Farmers, Developers, Residents

Fresno native Mark Arax has written about the war over water in his state for decades. “It used to be the farmers against the delta smelt fish, and now it’s the urbanite against the almond,” he says.

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Small Plague Outbreak In People Tracked To Pit Bull

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Rod-shaped specimens of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial cause of plague, find a happy home here in the foregut of a flea. Fleas can transmit the infection to animals and people, who can get pneumonic plague and transmit the infection through a cough.
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How British Farmers Are Making Rapeseed (Canola) Posh And Flavorful

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Sonny Miller’s Lesson for Us All: ‘Nature Dictates’

The white of Sonny Miller’s right eye was red. Fire engine red. He cocked his head to the side all the time, in fact, his shoulders leaned also to the right, I think. Maybe it was from carrying that box around. That box that made my movie.
Six years ago, I c…
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How Chronic Illness Prepared Me For Motherhood

Math and I aren’t really the best of friends. In fact, we’re barely on speaking terms. There is one thing that Math and I have in common, though: a love of Venn Diagrams. A light bulb went off for me recently when I was thinking about how my chronic illness int…
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This Poignant PSA Is Here To Shatter The Stigma Attached To Mental Health

Imagine a world where having a mental illness is as commonly accepted as having the flu.
It’s hard to fathom given the obvious stigma attached to mental health issues. Despite the fact that millions of people suffer from mental health disorders, only 25 percent …
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Magazine Prints Cover In HIV+ Blood To End Social Stigma

A men’s magazine hopes to end the social stigma surrounding HIV by printing with ink made from HIV-positive blood.
A new campaign from the German men’s magazine Vangardist and the advertising agency Saatchi Saatchi has printed some covers of the magazine’s spr…
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Global Cancer Death Rates Appear To Be On The Decline

By: Rachael Rettner
Published: April 29, 2015 09:00am ET on LiveScience.
The rate of deaths from cancer appears to be declining worldwide, a new study suggests.
Researchers analyzed information from death certificates in 60 countries between 2000 and…
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Some jobs may protect against memory decline

Good news for people whose jobs require managerial skills, conflict resolution and strategy development: A new study finds that performing these mentally challenging tasks during your career may protect against memory and thinking decline in old age.
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Buyers with a trade-in get a raw deal

If you’re in the market for a new car, and especially if you have a trade-in, the latest research from the USC Marshall School of Business marketing department suggests you aren’t getting the deal you think you are getting.
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Engineering a better solar cell: UW research pinpoints defects in popular perovskites

IMAGE: UW researchers used microscopy to identify inefficient regions in perovskite materials used in solar cells, as evidenced by dark areas in C.
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Dwindling productivity in Congress linked to vanishing cooperation

As the number of bills passed by Congress declines, fewer and fewer Congressional representatives are voting across party lines, leaving only a few key representatives as collaborative voters, according to researchers.
“We can’t say for sure that the decline in coo…
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California’s 4.8 million low-wage workers now earn less than in 1979

Over the past 35 years, California’s high-wage workers have seen steady increases in their paychecks. But low-wage workers, 4.8 million strong and about one-third of the state’s workforce, earned less in inflation-adjusted dollars in 2014 than they did in 1979, acc…
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MarkerMiner 1.0: An easy-to-use bioinformatics platform for DNA analysis in angiosperms

Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, add an allure to the world that is unlike anything else in nature, but more importantly, they sustain us. Most of the fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, nuts, and even herbs and spices that we consume are produced by…
Source: MarkerMiner 1.0: An easy-to-use bioinformatics platform for DNA analysis in angiosperms