Health
- É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ Center for Sports Governance: Organizations governing U.S. Olympic sports could do better when it comes to transparency, checks and balances and democratic processes.
- Researchers are developing new techniques for faster, lower cost single-molecule DNA sequencing that could have transformative impacts on genetic screening.
- É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ researchers have developed a potent, drug-like compound that could someday revolutionize treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases.
- Days after Shalane Flanagan won the NYC Marathon, É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥ researchers have published a study that inspired the name of the shoes she wore and confirms they reduce the amount of energy used to run.
- The research initiative will establish best practices and clinical infrastructure for advancing education on traumatic brain injury in student-athletes.
- Two ongoing research studies conducted by É«½ä³ÉÈËÖ±²¥â€™s CHANGE Lab are looking into how cannabis affects public health.
- Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms are becoming tools for tracking flu, Zika and other illnesses, signaling looming epidemics faster than public health agencies once could.
- The influenza A virus kills 12,000 to 56,000 people in the U.S. annually, but a newly discovered mechanism by which the human immune system tries to battle the virus could lead to new treatments.
- With their brains, sleep patterns and eyes still developing, children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the sleep-disrupting effects of screen time. Watch a short video interview.
- While traffic stops and arrests have fallen in nonwhite areas of Ferguson, Missouri, crime rates remain steady, suggesting cops previously had been "over-policing" these areas.