A higher predicted total lung capacity ratio, suggestive of oversized donor lungs, is associated with improved survival following lung transplantation, primarily among patients who undergo double-lung (bilateral) transplants, according to a new study in the August 2013 issue of The Annals of...
Costs to treat stroke are projected to more than double and the number of people having strokes may increase 20 percent by 2030, according to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. In a statement published in Stroke, an American Heart Association journal, the association...
When it comes to sexy fruit, the apple (think Eve), the banana (enough said) and even the tart lemon may come to mind. But except in those with a penchant for middle-aged bodies, the first choice is probably not the pear.
For physicists at the University of Liverpool, there’s nothing better...
A new design of screening could improve ratio between benefit and harms of screening Focusing prostate cancer testing on men at highest risk of developing the disease is likely to improve the ratio between benefits and the harms of screening, suggests a paper published this week on bmj.com...
Blood hormone tests predicted a woman's risk for developing postmenopausal breast cancer for up to 20 years, according to data from the Nurses' Health Study presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. "We found that a single hormone...
...Koran? Christ was prophesied? in scripture long before his earthly birth, death, and resurrection. Jesus lived an exceptional sinless life and is under some confusion by organized religions, while Mohamed's is also under questionable confusion and sometimes violent conflict by the very people...
According to investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Centocor R&D, a group of blood proteins can foresee which patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) - a progressive lung disease - are more likely to die within two years or live at least five years. The...
Patients with Merkel Cell Carcinoma who underwent a procedure called sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNLB) had a lower risk of cancer recurrence after two years, according to a study by researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center. When the biopsy's results were used to guide subsequent tests and...
In an article in the current issue of the journal Climatic Change Letters, Boston University researchers have estimated the impact near-term increases in global-mean temperatures will have on summertime temperatures in the U.S. and around the globe. The "2°C global warming target" is in...
What? Everybody knows Jules Verne totally called the Cellular Revolution back in 1874—wrote a book about it called 'The Camera-Phone" and everything. There's even a write up about it here, in The Onion. More »
A Hadron is a kind of particle, made of quarks. There are two kinds of hadrons, baryons (made out of three quarks) and mesons (made out of a quark and a quirky quark known as an antiquark).
The particle of interest is made up of an up quark, a strange quark, and a heavy bottom quark...
OK, not really, but Ragnar Tørnquist's adventure masterpiece The Longest Journey certainly got close, as you can see in the image above. Via, where else, Twitter. More »
A news study finds that the worse a woman's skin wrinkles are during the first few years of menopause, the lower her bone density is. The results will be presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. "In postmenopausal women the appearance of the skin may offer a...
...earlier), what possible reasons...? do you think would have caused a postponement?
(thank you. no TD from me)
@Storm
Thanks. I can agree with you on that point, as that would be the initial reaction to Camping prediction came Sunday. My extended question to you would be "what did you do...
another catastrophe in 2012? The fall of civilisations are said to sometimes coincide with sun spot cycles. The Mayan people predicted accurately the end of their civilisation and the calculations they used suggest an end in 2012 to the last age with possibly the shifting of the magnetic pole...