Credit: UVA Health System Providing simplified health information designed for parents with low health literacy helps all families in childhood ...

Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore Many lives may someday depend on the work of researchers like Tony Kim. He's ...

Credit: Surfaceskins Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections - a textile that disinfects ...

Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital A comprehensive study of adolescent and young adult cancer patients found ...

New Haven, Conn.-- More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast ...

Credit: Maria Grazia Vizioli and Zhixun Dou, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA -- Stress - defined broadly ...

Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the ...

CHAPEL HILL -- A retrospective review of several thousand melanoma cases in North Carolina found that Medicaid patients were more ...

CHAPEL HILL - A blood test for the human papillomavirus, or HPV, may help researchers forecast whether patients with throat ...

Scientists have had positive results from a laboratory-based study using a well-known alcohol aversion drug to try to combat chemotherapy ...

Bottom Line: A health care professional's recommendation was the most important factor driving decisions by women at high risk for ...

A new review article supported by a grant offered by Humane Society International has been published in the journal Plos ...

Credit: Mariel Vazquez/UC Davis If you've ever tried to untangle a pair of earbuds, you'll understand how loops and cords ...

WASHINGTON -- Just three years ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to optical scientists for breaking Abbe's diffraction limit ...

Credit: Courtesy Dr Brett Ferguson A new Australian study of peptide hormones critical for plant development could result in wide-ranging ...

Credit: Rose Cory, University of Michigan CORVALLIS, Ore. - Nearly half of the organic carbon stored in soil around the ...

Credit: Photo courtesy Dane Klinger CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new analysis suggests that open-ocean aquaculture for three species of finfish ...

Credit: Courtesy Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Humans migrated out of Africa as the climate shifted from wet to very dry about ...

RICHMOND, Va. (Oct. 4, 2017) -- Children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced when compared to those ...

Credit: Patrick Tranel URBANA, Ill. - Imagine walking the cereal aisle at your favorite grocery store. Are you reading labels? ...