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Swine researchers seek answers to fiber's low digestibility

Posted by eurekalert 13 hours ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

As interest grows in feeding distillers dried grains with solubles to growing pigs, many questions are being asked about the digestibility of this alternative feed option.

Mount Sinai researchers find new target to improve pain management

Posted by eurekalert 1 day 19 hours ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered a major mechanism underlying the development of tolerance to chronic morphine treatment.

Experts recommend universal screening of newborns for congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Posted by eurekalert 2 days ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

Today, the Endocrine Society released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The guideline features a series of evidence-based clinical recommendations developed by an expert task force.

Parents at highest risk for depression in the first year after child's birth

Posted by eurekalert 2 days ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

More than one-third of mothers and about one-fifth of fathers in the United Kingdom appear to experience an episode of depression between their child's birth and 12th year of age, with the highest rates in the first year after birth, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the November print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives jour

Use of medication for insomnia or anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent

Posted by eurekalert 1 hour 17 minutes ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

Taking medications to treat insomnia and anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent, according to a study conducted by Geneviève Belleville, a professor at Université Laval's School of Psychology. The details of this study are published in the latest edition of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Institute for Aging Research study finds indoor and outdoor fall are different for the elderly

Posted by eurekalert 1 day 1 hour 17 minutes ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

The risk factors for indoor and outdoor falls are different, according to a new Institute for Aging Research study, a fact that is often missed when the two are combined and may affect how falls prevention programs are structured.

Irrigation's cooling effects may mask warming in some regions -- for now

Posted by eurekalert 1 day 13 hours ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

Expanded irrigation has made it possible to feed the world's growing billions -- and it may also temporarily be counteracting the effects of climate change in some regions, say scientists in a new study. But some sources of irrigation water are projected to dry up in coming decades and when they do, people may face the double whammy of food shortages and higher temperatures. A new study in the Jo

Saving a million acre-feet of water through conservation and efficiency in California

Posted by eurekalert 1 day 7 hours ago (http://www.eurekalert.org)

A new Pacific Institute analysis identifies specific actions that can annually save a million acre-feet of water in California quickly and at lower economic and ecological cost than developing new supplies. Water conservation and efficiency improvements from urban and agricultural sectors are central components of any portfolio of solutions for California's water problems: the report identifies t