A new study has shown that the highly regimented ketogenic diet, a high-fat nutritional therapy used to limit seizures, requires long-term medical management and strong parental commitment to achieve both sufficient nutrition and improved seizure control in children.
Researchers have identified a fluorescent anesthetic compound that will assist researchers in obtaining more precise information about how anesthetics work in the body and will provide a means to more rapidly test new anesthetic compounds in the search for safer and more effective drugs.
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The National Physical Laboratory has developed the first sensor capable of measuring localized ultrasonic cavitation — the implosion of bubbles in a liquid when a high frequency sound wave is applied. The sensor will help hospitals ensure that their instruments are properly disinfected before they are used on patients.
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Leave it to geneticists to answer a question that has perplexed humanity since the dawn of time: does love at first sight truly exist? Scientists discovered that at the genetic level, some males and females are more compatible than others, and that this compatibility plays an important role in mate selection, mating outcomes, and future [...]
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Wild female chimpanzees copulate more frequently with males who share meat with them over long periods of time, according to researchers in Germany.
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Damage to patients’ immune systems is happening sooner now than it did at the beginning of the HIV epidemic, suggesting the virus has become more virulent, according to a new study in the May 1, 2009 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.
As the US Southwest grew warmer from 18,700 to 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing packrats of their favorite food. Now, biologists have narrowed the hunt for detoxification genes that let the rodents eat toxic creosote bushes that replaced juniper. The have identified 24 candidate genes.
Acupuncture cannot be shown to have any positive effect on hot flashes during menopause. This is the conclusion of a systematic review of literature.
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Climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns, and those changes are coming fast, according to a new analysis.
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Compound that targets androgen receptor could help patients with advanced tumors
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