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Heart attacks in young people and women may be unrecognized by paramedics and patients — ScienceDaily

Heart attack patients taken directly to heart centres for lifesaving treatment have better long-term survival than those transferred from another hospital, reports a large observational study presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care 20191 a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress. Directly admitted patients were older, suggesting that heart attacks in young adults, and particularly women,…

Women call ambulance for husbands with heart attacks but not for themselves — ScienceDaily

Women call an ambulance for husbands, fathers and brothers with heart attack symptoms but not for themselves. “It’s time for women take care of themselves too” is the main message of two studies from the Polish Registry of Acute Coronary Syndromes (PL-ACS) presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care 20191,2 a European Society of Cardiology (ESC)…

Outlook is good with prompt treatment — ScienceDaily

Don’t ignore heart attack symptoms while travelling, keep emergency numbers at hand. That’s the main message of a study presented today at Acute Cardiovascular Care 20191 a European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of natural death among people who are travelling, yet, so far, the long-term outlook for those…

Conceiving within a year of stillbirth does not increase risks for next pregnancy — ScienceDaily

Conceiving within a year of stillbirth is common and is not associated with increased risk of stillbirth, preterm birth, or small-for-gestational-age birth in the following pregnancy, compared with an interpregnancy interval of at least two years. The results are from the first large-scale observational study to investigate the interval between stillbirth and subsequent pregnancy, including…

Cell editors correct genetic errors — ScienceDaily

Almost all land plants employ an army of editors who correct errors in their genetic information. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now transferred parts of this machinery into a bacterium. Their results confirm a controversial thesis on the functioning of this widespread mechanism. They have now been published in the journal Communications Biology…

Tool reveals molecular causes of disease, including infant cancer — ScienceDaily

Princeton University researchers are gaining new insights into the causes and characteristics of diseases by harnessing machine learning to analyze molecular patterns across hundreds of diseases simultaneously. Demonstrating a new tool now available to researchers worldwide, the team of computer scientists and biologists has already uncovered and experimentally confirmed previously unknown contributions of four genes…

Collaborative investigation reveals genetic spectrum of tic disorders, with more risk variants leading to more severe symptoms — ScienceDaily

A meta-analysis of multiple studies into the genetic background of Tourette’s syndrome (TS) — a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by chronic involuntary motor and vocal tics — finds that variants in hundreds of genes, working in combination, contribute to the development of the syndrome and suggests that Tourette’s is part of a continuous spectrum of tic…

Scientists develop a high-performance unipolar n-type thin-film transistor — ScienceDaily

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report a unipolar n-type transistor with a world-leading electron mobility performance of up to 7.16 cm2 V-1 s-1. This achievement heralds an exciting future for organic electronics, including the development of innovative flexible displays and wearable technologies. Researchers worldwide are on the hunt for novel materials that…

Solid state thermochemiluminescence achieved with crystals — ScienceDaily

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate that this fundamental process of transduction of energy — heat, applied to a material, generates light — can be achieved in pure solid materials of millimeter or centimeter size. In general, chemiluminescence reactions are only known to be possible in solution (a process that, for example,…

Researchers find that clinging to soil particles slows degradation in new, gene-silencing pesticide — ScienceDaily

A new generation of pesticides can be used to control pest insects by compromising the bug’s ability to create essential proteins. These gene-silencing pesticides can be genetically engineered into agricultural crops such that these crops can literally grow their own defense. New research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis…