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Adolescents who use vaping products are not only more likely to smoke cigarettes but are also likely to increase their ...

Professor, MSD high school senior collaborate on homicide trends

Credit: Florida Atlantic University The vast majority of homicides in the United States are attributable to firearms. The rate of ...

Novel mechanism for generating our skeleton

Credit: Kanazawa University There are more than 200 bones in the human body. Bone is formed during embryonic and postnatal ...

What kind of sex do German men have at 45?

12,354 men at the age of 45 spoke about sex for a study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). ...

The immune system of the alpaca reveals a potential treatment for cancer

Credit: Salvador Guardiola and Monica Varese, IRB Barcelona The natural world often provides the answer to unsolved medical problems. On ...

Hopkins researchers use endoscope to deliver gene therapy in animal study

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Fixing or replacing faulty genes has emerged as a key to unlocking cures for numerous devastating ...

A web-based program is as effective as group counseling for patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, October 2, 2018 - Lifestyle changes are the cornerstone of preventing and treating non-alcoholic fatty ...

Canada’s first ‘state of the nation’ report on children’s physical literacy

OTTAWA, October 2, 2018 - The results from a large national research project led by the Healthy Active Living and ...

Study finds albiglutide reduces cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes and existing cardiovascular disease

New research presented at this year's annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and published ...

A web-based program is as effective as group counseling for patients with NAFLD

Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, October 2, 2018 - Lifestyle changes are the cornerstone of preventing and treating non-alcoholic fatty ...

Text messages quickly track health care use during Ebola outbreak

Credit: GeoPoll Text messages aren't just a way to chat with family and friends--they are a viable method for rapidly ...

First experiments at new X-ray laser reveal unknown structure of antibiotics killer

Credit: Illustration: DESY/Lucid Berlin An international collaboration led by DESY and consisting of over 120 researchers has announced the results ...

Computer model may help scientists split up, reassemble proteins on command

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Splitting up and getting back together is always hard to do, but for proteins, it's almost ...

Aggressive breast cancer cells hijack natural stress protector to thrive

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 2, 2018) - A member of a protein family known ...

UM researchers publish discoveries on antibiotic resistance

Credit: Courtesy of Patrick Secor MISSOULA - University of Montana researchers recently published their new insights into how pathogenic bacteria ...

Shorter physician encounters associated with antibiotic prescribing

1. Shorter physician encounters associated with antibiotic prescribing Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M18-2042 URLs go live when the embargo lifts Patients who received ...

‘Spacesuits’ protect microbes destined to live in space

Credit: Peidong Yang lab, UC Berkeley Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in inhospitable environments, newly developed "spacesuits" for bacteria ...

CRISPR tames the wild groundcherry

ITHACA, NY - You might not have heard of the groundcherry, or at least, never tasted one. But that could ...

New tool developed at Brown will aid in understanding brain signals

Credit: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The human brain contains about 90 billion neurons, but Stephanie Jones, an associate ...

Animal study suggests deep space travel may significantly damage GI function in astronauts