Ukrainian villages still suffering legacy of Chernobyl more than 30 years on
Credit: Denis Sinyakov/Greenpeace Milk in parts of Ukraine has radioactivity levels up to five times over the country's official safe...
Ex-smokers might be better off with high rather than low nicotine e-cigs
Vapers using low rather than high nicotine e-cigarettes may be using their devices more intensely, potentially increasing the risk of...
$8.1 million grant funds new center to research highly aggressive form of lung cancer
Vanderbilt University has been awarded a five-year, $8.1-million grant from the National Cancer Institute to serve as a research center...
Consumers beware: High user ‘star ratings’ dont mean a mobile medical app works
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) By screening 250 user reviews and comments for a once popular -- but proven inaccurate -- mobile...
Holes in the head
Credit: University of Miami Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of...
Face transplantation — An established option to improve quality of life in patients with severe facial trauma
June 8, 2018 - Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, US trauma surgeons should be aware of the...
The cartography of the nucleus
Credit: Guttman laboratory / Cell Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six...
Racial/Ethnic disparities in diabetes diagnosis and control in reproductive aged women
New research demonstrates that diabetes is increasingly common in young adults and disproportionately affects women of color. In a new...
High food insecurity found in a sample of adults on probation in Rhode Island
BOSTON (June 8, 2018, 2:00 p.m. ET)--A new cross-sectional study led by public health researchers at Tufts University School of...
A ‘super’ receptor that helps kill HIV infected cells
Credit: Melissa Cowan While treatments for HIV mean that the disease is no longer largely fatal, the world still lacks...
Wayne State researchers examine the role of glutamate in aging cognitive diseases
DETROIT - As people around the world live longer, the prevalence of age-associated cognitive disorders is growing. Alzheimer's disease (AD),...
Carbon dioxide reduces belly fat
Technique performed outside U.S., but no previous randomized trial to study effectiveness Non-invasive fat reduction increasingly sought after by patients...
ORNL launches Summit Supercomputer
Credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 8, 2018--The U.S. Department of Energy's...
Association of food allergy, other allergies with autism spectrum disorder
Bottom Line: Food and other types of allergies are more likely to be reported in children with autism spectrum disorder...