Even minor traffic noise has negative impact on work performance

Researchers from Chalmers' Division of Applied Acoustics conducted a laboratory experiment in which test subjects...

Moving from troubled areas to better ones may aid with asthama

A new study discovered that children who moved from troubled areas to better ones had better asthma control.

Dementia study suggests how harmful proteins spread through brain

A recent study suggests that fresh insights into the spread of toxic proteins that collect in the brains of...

Blood samples may predict kidney disease in diabetes patients

A conceptual framework has been created by researchers to predict if a person with type 2 diabetes may develop renal...

Pulmonary artery pressure monitoring lowers hospitalisation

In patients with chronic heart failure, remote pulmonary artery pressure monitoring improves the quality of life and...

Uncontrolled hunger in teenagers with obesity have consequences

New research being presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Dublin, Ireland (17-20 May) reveals that...

Foreign tourism bounces back in Jerusalem

The Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research's 37th Statistical Yearbook of Jerusalem presents a comprehensive...

MoEI drives strategic partnerships in clean energy sectors

The tour started at the German city of Freiburg. Al Olama visited the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems...

Placenta plays an important role in genetic risk of schizophrenia

A recent study headed by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development found that more than 100 genes linked to the...

Study: Heat-temperature marine bacteria help detoxify asbestos

For the first time, University of Pennsylvania researchers have demonstrated that extremophilic bacteria from...

Effects of stress in pregnancy on child's early language skills

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol during the third trimester of pregnancy may boost speech and language...

Kids gut bacteria predict whether they will be overweight at 5

The composition and amount of gut bacteria in kids at 3.5 years old predict body mass index (BMI) at age 5,...