ERA results: Medical research is Australia's best
Australia's medical and health sciences are leading the country in research quality, according to the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report.
View ArticleHow healthy is your county?
(HealthDay)—Rates of premature death in counties across the United States are the lowest in 20 years, but people in the least healthy counties are more than twice as likely to die early as those in the...
View ArticleSocial stress affects immune system gene expression in monkeys
The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study reports. The research is...
View ArticleLearning who's the top dog: Study reveals how the brain stores information...
Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn ordinary information. The study provides...
View ArticlePremature deaths down in 60 percent of US counties
(HealthDay)—Premature death rates have fallen in 60 percent of the counties in the United States in the past decade, a new report shows.
View ArticleDo not resuscitate (DNR) orders impact hospital rankings
Healthcare consumers, policy and insurance organizations rely heavily on hospital ranking reports, but how accurate are they? Do differences in patient preferences for life-sustaining treatments that...
View ArticleTreatment rankings derived from network meta-analyses have a substantial...
Treatment rankings derived from network meta-analyses feature a substantial degree of imprecision, according to a new study by researchers at Cochrane France and INSERM U1153 in Paris. More than half...
View ArticleWhy get a liberal education? It is the life and breath of medicine
Hospital rankings were released Aug. 2 by U.S. News & World Report. Of the top 20, almost every single hospital is affiliated with a medical school. These big academic medical centers treat a large...
View ArticleKnowing one's place in a social hierarchy
When you start a new job, it's normal to spend the first day working out who's who in the pecking order, information that will come in handy for making useful connections in the future. In an fMRI...
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