Surgery involving ultrasound energy found to treat high blood pressure
An operation that targets the nerves connected to the kidney has been found to significantly reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension, according to...
Depression speeds up brain aging, find psychologists
Psychologists at the University of Sussex have found a link between depression and an acceleration of the rate at which the brain ages.
Although scientists...
A closed car under direct sunlight can kill in one hour
A lot can happen at 160 degrees Fahrenheit: Eggs fry, salmonella bacteria dies, and human skin will suffer third-degree burns.
If a car is parked...
Antidepressant use may contribute to long-term population weight gain
Researchers at King's College London have found that patients prescribed any of the 12 most commonly used antidepressants were 21% more likely to experience...
How to produce carbon nanotubes economically
Imagine a box you plug into the wall that cleans your toxic air and pays you cash.
That's essentially what Vanderbilt University researchers produced after...
Early physical therapy benefits low-back pain patients
Patients with low-back pain are better off seeing a physical therapist first, according to a study of 150,000 insurance claims.
The study, published in Health...
Researchers identify source of molecule linked to nasal polyps, asthma attacks
A new discovery about how the immune system responds to common sinus infections and asthma could explain why patients develop these issues in the...
New type of vertigo identified
Neurologists have identified a new type of vertigo with no known cause, according to a study published in the May 23, 2018, online issue...
Leg Exercise is Critical to Brain and Nervous System Health
Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body’s large, leg muscles to the brain as it does...
Researchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive...
The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way.
Some people can’t see differences...
Researchers reveal a small region of Ataxin-2, a protein implicated in long term memory,...
Scientists have just discovered that a small region of a cellular protein that helps long-term memories form also drives the neurodegeneration seen in Amyotrophic...
Discovered Link Between Tuberculosis and Parkinson’s Disease
The mechanism our immune cells use to clear bacterial infections like tuberculosis (TB) might also be implicated in Parkinson’s disease, according to a new...
New Brain Development Disorder Identified
Researchers have identified a new inherited neurodevelopmental disease that causes slow growth, seizures and learning difficulties in humans.
Writing in the journal eLife, the team reveals...
Chinese Hackers Find Over a Dozen Vulnerabilities in BMW Cars
Chinese security researchers have discovered more than a dozen vulnerabilities in the onboard compute units of BMW cars, some of which can be exploited...
Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers
More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet...
