Sentences with phrase «researchers said the link»

Though the researchers say the link between religion and magnanimity may seem surprising given that news headlines so often focus on terrorist attacks and other atrocities committed in the name of religion, their results suggest that for most people, the influence of religion may be more positive than what is often portrayed in the media.

Not exact matches

The researchers said these cases of arthrogryposis were possibly connected to the nervous system, which is consistent with some of the other birth defects linked to Zika.

Several Republican politicians and government officials including President Donald Trump have suggested that mental illness was to blame for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday that left 17 people dead — but researchers say evidence suggests there is no traceable link between mental illness and gun violence, and that a much more widespread issue is to blame.

One researcher said these studies are just the tip of the iceberg for diseases linked to the mutations in the sperm of older men.

It is important to note that these researchers are not saying that a causal link between repetitive head impacts and CTE won't ever be established, and it is clear from the evidence so far that there is a link between concussions and repetitive head trauma and an increased risk of long - term neurocognitive problems.

* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

«The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies».

The study, which the researchers say is the first to link brain activity with maternal behavior, is likely to reinforce the convictions of breast - feeding mothers that they're doing right by their babies and make formula - feeding moms squirm a little.

They say a new study found that, when exposed to heat, baby bottles release a chemical that, researchers say, has been linked to obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab animals.

Dr Agnes Sonnenschein - van der Voort, researcher at Generation R and lead author from the Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands, said: «The link of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding with asthma - related symptoms during the first 4 years was independent of infectious and atopic diseases.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

«With evidence pointing to a link between betting shops and crime, concerns are now growing that betting shops not only increase crime but also replace locally - valued small businesses as well as voluntary and community enterprises,» says researcher Dr Neli Demireva of the University of Essex.

«Health and wealth are directly linked and, unless we tackle the income gap, we could well see life expectancy actually starting to fall for the first time in the poorest areas,» said lead researcher Professor Danny Dorling.

The new findings suggest that group dynamics tamp down individual personalities, and the researchers say it is the first time that such suppression has been explicitly linked to an underlying cause: the need to conform when faced with a risky decision.

While the feathers aren't the first to be found in amber, earlier specimens have been difficult to definitively link to their source animal, the researchers say.

The hormone drop makes sense, the researchers say, since high testosterone tends to boost behaviors linked to competing for a mate, risky activities that may conflict with the responsibilities of fatherhood.

«HPV vaccine, riskier sexual activity not linked, Canadian researchers say.»

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

For reasons the researchers say are not yet clear, the mutations they identified have some links to genetic mutations found in some forms of cancer.

OUR ability to solve spatial tasks may be linked to our linguistic skills, say researchers who studied the effect of sign language on spatial cognition.

The researchers say the deaths are most likely to be linked to heart or blood vessel disease (cardiovascular disease).

«We've embedded clinical researchers and facilities in academic hospitals, with close links to the research environment around them, including access to technology for «omics and imaging,» says Williams.

The researchers also linked the rates of nitrogen loss with the supply of organic material that drives the rates: more organic material equates to more nitrogen loss, so the quantity of the material matters too, Babbin said.

However, the researchers say the findings are consistent with a large number of studies linking road traffic noise and hypertension, which is a leading cause of stroke.

Also, she says, patients and parents of patients had shared personal stories and testimonials with the researchers about their experience with yeast infections, and these discussions prompted the investigation into possible links between mental illness and the microbiome — the body's natural collection of bacteria.

Sound sleep in young and middle - aged people helps memory and learning, but as they hit their seventh, eighth and ninth decades — and generally don't sleep as much or as well — sleep is not linked so much to memory, a Baylor University researcher says.

In a linked editorial, University of Oxford researchers say «much more evidence is needed before we can draw conclusions on the reported protective association between adolescent fruit intake and breast cancer risk.»

But Chen said the link at this point is preliminary because researchers have not yet looked for any specific, more definitive neurological effects, such as reduced IQs, memories or vocabularies — outcomes already linked to two other toxic metals, lead and mercury.

Researchers have suspected a link between anxiety and poor health, including diabetes, for many years but none have detailed the biological pathway responsible, said lead author Kyle Murdock, a postdoctoral research fellow in psychology.

«Psoriasis severity linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes: Measuring body surface area in psoriasis can identify highest risk cases, researchers say.»

While reduced vegetation cover and soil disturbance can make more sediment available for emission in dust storms, the researchers say, the widely reported link between the storm and the fighting in Syria was untested and lacked empirical support.

• The researchers say there is no evidence that rhodopsin expression in skin can be linked to any kind of depression, so perhaps best to wrap up warm instead.

Although the researchers caution that their work does not prove a link between the gene and such diseases, it does provide some very interesting clues, says Steve Moldin of the Genetics Research branch at NIMH.

The researchers said this is the first study to link caffeine intake with «chronotype,» which classifies people by the time of day they are most alert and active

Ocean chemist Philip Boyd of the University of Otago in New Zealand says many other researchers have tried to link an infusion of iron from volcanic ash or even dust storms to plankton blooms, but this study is the first to «verify such a massive event.»

Private - public partnerships are essential in tackling pandemics, and excluding flu researchers with industry links would deprive advisory panels of world - class expertise, he says.

The researchers said the cancer is likely underreported, and although it appears to be linked with a certain type of implant, more research is needed to identify the specific cause.

Low testosterone levels, which may contribute to infertility, are a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and may be what's driving this link, the researchers said.

Turning the tide of early deaths linked to autism must be a priority, says James Cusack, a campaigning researcher, who has autism himself

The discovery of an unexpected biochemical link within tumor cells should lead to clinical trials for experimental drug treatments that indirectly target myc and that already are being evaluated in human studies, the researchers said.

The research is unique in linking local population changes for multiple bird species to broad - scale climate changes, says Beatrice Van Horne, a wildlife researcher at the U.S. Forest Service in Arlington, Virginia: «Things that happen at a large scale are hard to see because local variance often confuses us.

The spindle - thalamus link made it «logical that the sleep spindle would play a role in regulating sensory input while we sleep,» says Jeffrey Ellenbogen, a sleep researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

What is now urgently needed, say researchers, are precise studies linking food, hormone levels and cancer outcomes, such as the EPIC project — the continuing European collaboration that will link diet to the health of 400 000 Europeans over a decade or more («Britain's deadly diet», New Scientist, 11 May 1991).

«This new temperature record provides a direct link between the volcanism and impact events and the extinction pulses — that link being climate change,» said Sierra Petersen, a postdoctoral researcher in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Establishing a link between certain genes and the placebo effect is in its infancy, the researchers say online April 13 in Trends in Molecular Medicine.

«Use of acetaminophen during pregnancy linked to ADHD in children, researchers say.»

«Gene in brain linked to kidney cancer, researchers say.»

Researchers say they have found a clear link between climate change and the spread of diarrhea and similar diseases in one African country.

Researchers say their findings could help to explain reported links between paracetamol use in pregnancy and reproductive health problems in young boys.

By crunching data from the genomes of hundreds of individuals with various degrees of autism, the researchers identified several functionally related genetic variations that they say are likely to be linked to autism or to the underlying pathology of neuronal development that may cause it.