Month: October 2018

For obese and overweight patients, it is common for various surgical procedures to be deferred until they have lost weight ...

More than a quarter of otherwise healthy six-year-old children may have metabolic risk factors that put them at increased risk ...

Participation in organized sport during childhood and adolescence is associated with bone mass at 20 years of age, according to ...

Psoriasis is linked with increased risks of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but its effect on the course of cardiovascular disease ...

In a study of 744 infertile men, prediabetes was found in 114 (15.4 percent) of participants. Certain factors were linked ...

Misuse of prescription opioids or benzodiazepines (such as Xanax) was associated with suicidal ideation in a study of US older ...

One-on-one interviews with eight nurses in Ontario revealed that nurses making conscientious objections to ethically-relevant policies lack concrete supports and ...

An eight-week mindfulness-based program was effective for reducing stress and depressive symptoms while increasing general well-being in a study of ...

WHAT: 11th World Stroke Congress brings together leading international stroke experts and an unparalleled scientific program covering epidemiology, prevention, acute ...

Credit: Emma Teeling Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss ...

New UMBC research is helping dismantle gender and publication biases in science. A team of researchers working across disciplines has ...

Since the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the park's ecosystem has become a deeply complex and ...

Credit: Karen Grace Bondoc, FSU Jena Unicellular diatoms are able to adapt their behavior to different external stimuli based on ...

Credit: Uruma City, Japan © Ryo Yoshitake The U.S. city of Louisville, Kentucky isn't known as a hotbed of environmental ...

Traditionally many health-related research projects focused only on males, assuming that females' bodies would respond the same way to a ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Wisconsin--Madison are launching a project to ...

Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson You probably throw out more food than you realize. Food waste makes up 21.6 percent of ...

Credit: Trudy Oliver Lab Research at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) yielded new ...

Credit: Abhejit Rajagopal WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2018 -- Doctors use invasive procedures to map the hearts of patients suffering ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- When they first set out to follow grey reef sharks around the Republic of the Marshall ...