Sentences with phrase «new national study finds»

A new national study finds improvement in the overall performance of charter schools, driven in part by the presence of more high - performing charters and closure of under - performing charter schools.

US consumers waste nearly a pound of food per person each day, but the exact amount of food we trash differs by how healthy your diet is, a new national study finds.

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A new study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program, found that rats consistently exposed to radiofrequency radiation from cellphones were more likely to develop malignant tumors in the brain and heart.

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that tax policy has a dramatic impact on businesses and, if raised too high, could drive consumers to the black market.

The National Institutes of Health also studied outdoor exercise, comparing it to indoor exercise, finding, according to The New York Times, that subjects scored «higher on measures of vitality, enthusiasm, pleasure and self - esteem and lower on tension, depression and fatigue after they walked outside.»

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A study earlier this year found that 40 percent of pregnancies in New York City every year are aborted — two times the national average.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

Although Luther North College Prep will not officially begin their new academy model until next year, the National Academy Foundation has completed numerous studies to find that this type of educational balance results in more kids staying in school and, more importantly, more kids staying interested in being in school.

This past year, the National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN), New Haven, Connecticut, joined with faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, to conduct the first peer - reviewed study to quantify diaper need.3 Key findings included the following:

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

A new study to appear in the Journal of Econometrics and reported by Science Daily has found that participation in the National School Lunch Program («NSLP») reduces food insecurity among impoverished children by 3.8 percent and reduces poor general health by 29 percent.

Countries which have adopted the euro have seen a marked decrease in national pride and a more generous approach to wealth distribution, a new academic study has found.

Professor Keith Godfrey, from the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and the National Institute for Health Research Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, and a member of the study team, said: «The new findings provide the first direct evidence linking faltering of a baby's growth in the womb with epigenetic modifications that themselves may increase the risk of childhood obesity.

The National Academies launched two new studies in January, but it's unclear whether these committees are more likely than their numerous predecessors to find real solutions

In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the research team found that after giving mice metformin the animals displayed reduced symptoms when going through nicotine withdrawal.

Fewer veterans received prescriptions for risky dosages of opioid painkillers after a national initiative took aim at reducing high doses and potentially dangerous drug combinations, a new study finds.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

Glaciers in Alaska's Denali National Park are melting faster than at any time in the past four centuries because of rising summer temperatures, a new study finds.

New findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showed in lab studies that supplementing an epigenetic cancer drug called decitabine with vitamin C enhanced the drug's ability to impede cancer cell growth and trigger cellular self - destruction in cancer cell lines.

In a new study funded in part by a National Geographic Society / Waitt Fund Grant and published in Behavioral Ecology, Rudolph and McEntee found that victorious colonies might offset this challenge by recruiting members of the losing colonies to help.

The National Institutes of Health - funded study, published July 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine, also found that participants in Sweden had higher rates of celiac disease than participants in the United States, Finland and Germany, even with the same genetic risks.

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

These new findings, published this week online by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, are an important key to the puzzle of how technology emerged as humans dispersed across the globe, says archaeologist Ofer Bar - Yosef at Harvard University, who, like Straus, did not participate in this study.

A significant portion of the world's emissions of heat - trapping gases emitted by air conditioners, refrigeration and other applications comes from the developing world, finds a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new study of national survey information gathered on more than 12,000 Hispanic children from immigrant and U.S. - native families found that although they experience more poverty, those from immigrant families reported fewer exposures to such adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) as parental divorce and scenes of violence.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

A study by the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found new interactions between two molecules involved in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), STAT3 and PRL - 3, which may offer a new therapeutic target for cancer treatment.

A March 2009 study by biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University and biologist Gerardo Ceballos of the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that 81 percent of the 408 new mammal species discovered in the last 15 years are yoked to local ecosystems and likely to become extinct.

Reductions in national carbon emissions could prevent more than 3,000 premature deaths per year by cleaning up the air across the nation, finds a new study published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found seawater cycles throughout Earth's interior down to 2,900 km, much deeper than previously thought, reopening questions about how the atmosphere and oceans formed.

The authors of the new study found that 85 percent of world's 4,118 threatened mammals, birds, and amphibian species are not adequately protected in existing national parks, and are therefore vulnerable to extinction in the near term.

A new study finds that while a blood test that helps to screen for prostate cancer remains common, only 30 percent of men in a large national survey reported having a balanced discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the screening with their doctor.

A new study to be published by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that a 70 percent cut in emissions should stabilize temperatures at a mark not too much higher than today.

But, as a new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study found, «for African - American scientists,... the program may as well not exist,» Mervis continued.

As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men receiving treatment for the disease declined 42 percent, a new study finds.

In a new study of biodiversity loss in a salt marsh, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they find that it's not just the total number of species preserved that matters, it's the number of key species.

A new study by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, says that ytterbium could find a role in super-accurate atomic clocks.

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College describe new research into a type of liquid crystal that dissolves in water rather than avoids it as do the oily liquid crystals found in displays.

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth College and The Australian National University finds that the Republican Party's advantage when it rains may be due in part to voters changing their partisan preference that day.

A new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Wash., for example, finds that during Salmonella infection the pathogen may use fucose to fortify itself and find its way through a host's body

Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

Issac Too of the National University of Singapore and colleagues highlight this finding in a new PLOS Pathogens study.

One surprising finding from the current study was that TL2 bonobos harbor P. gaboni, which was previously only found in chimpanzees, as well as a new Laverania species, termed P. lomamiensis, in recognition of the recently established Lomami National Park.

Political conservatives become more open to environmentalism after seeing climate change messages rooted in nostalgia, found a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

A new large national study found that the more nursing directors knew about palliative care, the lower the likelihood that their patients would experience aggressive end - of - life care.

The study's senior author Robert S. DiPaola, MD, who is the director of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and helped lead the design of the protocol a decade ago when he was the national chairman of the ECOG Genitourinary Committee, says the findings are significant.

A new study to be presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2015 National Conference & Exhibition in Washington, DC, found that children in foster care were three times more likely than others to have an ADHD diagnosis.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who have made important findings on the dangers of thirdhand smoke and how it adsorbs strongly onto indoor surfaces, have published a new study assessing the health effects of thirdhand smoke constituents present in indoor air.

A new study, published in this week's issue of Current Biology and partly funded by the National Science Foundation, suggests that salmon find their home rivers by sensing the rivers» unique magnetic signature.