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Heidelberg | New York, 13 June 2018 Parents who spend a lot of time on their phones or watching television ...

BfR MEAL study: BfR intensifying cooperation with Republic of Korea

In which quantities do we ingest undesired substances with our food on average? Are certain foods more strongly contaminated than ...

Floridians took Zika threat more seriously than rest of US — but still most did nothing

Threatened by the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 2016, Florida residents felt more susceptible than others in the United States to ...

Magnetic treatment could help remove ‘off-flavor’ from wines

From vine to wine, grapes undergo a remarkable transformation. But sometimes this makeover results in vino that doesn't taste quite ...

Transparent pricing boosts business at outpatient surgical centers, study suggests

In a small study of ambulatory surgical centers across the country, Johns Hopkins quality care researchers found that publicly listing ...

Medscape report finds physicians are sexually harassed on the job

New York, NY, June 13, 2018: A new report from Medscape finds that more than 1 in 10 female physicians ...

Cash and goal-setting help motivate heart patients to take healthy steps

DALLAS, June 13, 2018 -- The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may ...

Getting heart disease patients to exercise: Study says wearables could help but only if money is on the line

PHILADELPHIA -- Combining financial incentives and personalized goal-setting with wearable devices may be an effective way of encouraging patients with ...

Network biology reveals pathogen targets in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - How are proteins in the cells of a flowering plant similar to social networks on ...

How ‘gatekeepers’ to a cell’s nucleus let genetic instructions pass through

Credit: Hoelz Lab/Dan Lin/Caltech Standing guard between a cell's nucleus and its main chamber, called the cytoplasm, are thousands of ...

Older melanoma patients may respond to anti-PD1 immunotherapy better than younger patients

Bottom Line: With each decade of life, the likelihood of progression of melanoma after treatment with anti-PD1 immunotherapy decreased by ...

Older melanoma patients have better response to immune checkpoint blockade therapy

PHILADELPHIA -- (June 13, 2018) -- Patient age correlates with response to immunotherapy in melanoma and depleting regulatory T cells ...

Men turn to plastic surgeons for a better body image and more confidence at every age

Credit: American Society of Plastic Surgeons Body image is an issue most commonly discussed among women, but new statistics released ...

Primary care providers say Michigan’s Medicaid expansion helped patients’ health and work

Credit: MDHHS ANN ARBOR, MI - Extending medical insurance to low-income Michigan residents meant they had better access to health ...

Dementia can be caused by hypertension

A new study in Cardiovascular Research, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that patients with high blood pressure are at ...

Modern blood cancer treatments require new approach for monitoring, reporting side effects

---Treatment changes including the advent of targeted and immune therapies have dramatically improved survival for blood cancers, but new report ...

103rd ESA Annual Meeting: Preview and highlights

Extreme events - such as heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and storms - are made worse by human activities. For ...

Binging, purging and fasting more common in overweight, obese young adults

Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use ...

Intact forests: Indispensable to the fight against climate change

LONDON (12 June 2018) -- A major international conference on "Intact Forests in the 21st Century" will take place in ...

Dialogue toward a human-relevant paradigm for biomedical research echoed in South America