Cell phones to their ears, a team of research participants will report their interpersonal interactions in real time to provide a better view of human behavior thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Aging as part of the National Institutes of Health’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding.

A new approach to statistical analysis may be better suited to study the relationship between higher “dose” of dialysis and survival time for patients with advanced kidney disease, according to an upcoming paper in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

Depression is a major public health problem, and one of the most important challenges for psychiatrists is to determine whether an individual with depression should receive cognitive-behavioral therapy or treatment with antidepressant medication. A study by researchers from Emory University, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in San Francisco, [...]

A team of researchers at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex has been awarded funding to carry out the most comprehensive study of its kind on breastfeeding.

Genes determining the optimal dose of therapeutic warfarin have now been identified in a large-scale, genome-wide association scan (GWAS) of this pharmacogenetic trait. Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Uppsala University Hospital, and the Karolinska Institute have found common sequence variants in three genes – VKORC1, CYP2C9 and CYP4F2 – that explain over 40% [...]