The Cause of High Blood Pressure Revealed By Computer Modelling
Computer simulations show that high blood pressure can be entirely explained by arterial stiffening as we age, say researchers
Biomedicine
NIMH Will Drop Widely Used Psychiatry Manual
NIMH director says the DSM lacks biological validity in its diagnoses: “Patients with mental disorders deserve better.”
Participants in Personal Genome Project Identified by Privacy Experts
Privacy experts have identified participants in the Personal Genome Project using "de-identified" data.
Carbon Nanotube Sensor Detects Glucose in Saliva
Painful finger-prick blood tests for diabetics could become a thing of the past, say physicists who have built a sensor that measures glucose in saliva
Cancer Drugs Should Cost Less, Say Doctors
Doctors argue that some drug companies are charging too much for their cancer drugs, to the detriment of patients.
Bird Flu: On the Move and Hard to Track
The H7N9 virus is deadly to humans but does not present symptoms in birds, which makes it more difficult to control.
A Decade of Advances Since the Human Genome Project
Despite breakthroughs in technology and medicine, there's still a lot of work ahead for understanding and using the human genome.
Brinicles and the Origin of Life
Extraordinary tubes of ice that grow down into the ocean from ice sheets could be as significant for the origin of life as hydrothermal vents, say chemists
The Cost of Dementia: Worse Than We Thought
A new study shows that dementia will have a crippling impact on the U.S. economy.
