New Yorker cartoons reveal attitudes toward parenting
Jaclyn Tabor and Jessica Calarco tap a novel data source to track changing attitudes toward parenting during the 20th and early 21st centuries: cartoons in the New Yorker magazine.
View ArticleClinical trial is first to study impact of cognitive impairment assessment in...
Does knowing whether older adults are cognitively impaired affect the treatment they receive from their primary care physician? Does it impact the rate of the patient's cognitive decline?
View ArticleTo email or not to email? For those in love, it's better than leaving a voice...
In her hit single, Carly Rae Jepsen may have sung, "Here's my number, so call me maybe." But according to a new research study from Indiana University, she might be more successful in finding love if...
View ArticleIU researchers lead effort to unlock economic potential of maker movement
Hacking, crafting, making, tinkering, "DIY." A wide range of terms reflect a growing international culture of creativity related to making physical objects.
View ArticleScientists chart lost highway in the brain
A study three years ago sparked a medical mystery when it revealed a part of the brain not found in any present-day anatomy textbooks.
View ArticlePopulation health: Statewide study finds decreasing rates of osteoporosis...
A statewide study has found that from 2005 to 2012, fewer than a quarter of men and women with documentation of osteoporosis or fragility fracture, conditions for which national guidelines would...
View ArticleRegenstrief and IU develop innovative ethics-based model for...
In an era of declining federal government funding for medical research, researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Bioethics have developed a set of principles and...
View ArticleStudy finds that discrimination is linked with worse health among transgender...
Despite a surge in public attention toward the transgender population, transgender adults continue to face both major and daily discrimination that often directly leads to dangerous health consequences.
View ArticleSexual activity causes immune system changes that increase chances of conception
Research from Indiana University has found that sexual activity triggers physiological changes in the body that increase a woman's chances of getting pregnant, even outside the window of ovulation.
View ArticleResearchers identify new gene linked to amyloid beta plaque buildup in...
In a newly published study, a multi-institutional team led by scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine have discovered an immune system gene associated with higher rates of amyloid...
View ArticlePresenting options to patients: Menu approach good for patients and physicians
A significant proportion of medical treatment decisions, perhaps the majority, are not clear-cut. Which is better for a specific patient—medication or surgery, medication or talk therapy, or even no...
View ArticleRegenstrief tEMR gives medical students rare real world experience in patient...
With the goal of transforming medical education to include real world electronic medical record experience, clinician-informaticians from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of...
View ArticleResearchers find pathway to cancer-associated muscle weakness
Cancer researchers at Indiana University and their colleagues have discovered how cancer-induced bone destruction causes skeletal muscle weakness.
View ArticleScientists find the external environment, oxidation greatest threats to DNA
A study led by Indiana University biologist Patricia Foster and colleagues has found that forces in the external environment and oxidation are the greatest threats to an organism's ability to repair...
View ArticlePublic agencies less likely than private firms to comply with environmental...
Government entities are less likely to comply with certain federal environmental regulations than are similar entities owned by private companies, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana...
View ArticleStudy uncovers recipe for producing and managing star performers
While the contributions and value added by star performers can be extraordinary and even legendary, companies today often overlook the influence those top employees can have on others around them,...
View ArticleStudy cites gap between theory and practice in natural resource management
Natural resource agencies have embraced an approach known as adaptive management to adjust and refine their management plans in the face of uncertainties caused by climate change and the functioning of...
View ArticleParents of first-born sons and only-child daughters give more, study finds
Parents' charitable giving is affected by the sex of their first child, according to a new report released today by the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of...
View ArticleSeniors with dementia make more emergency department visits
Older adults with dementia are more frequent visitors to emergency departments, returning at higher rates and incurring greater costs than older adults without dementia, according to a new study from...
View ArticleMarginalized groups use the Internet to broaden their networks, rather than...
A new research study from Indiana University supports the commonly held view that people from disadvantaged groups are using the Internet to broaden their social networks.
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