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About 1 in 5 adolescent victims of sexual harassment on social media…
IMAGE: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly online with Open Access options and in...
Duke Endowment grant to help UNC Lineberger roll out lay patient navigation program in…
Credit: UNC The Duke Endowment of Charlotte, N.C., has awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center...
HKBU Chinese medicine scholars develop HKBU Chinese medicine scholars…
Credit: HKBU Chinese Medicine scholars at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) have succeeded in developing a novel targeted delivery system...
New clinical trial using water to treat polycystic kidney disease
Credit: Westmead Medical Research Foundation A cheap, safe and effective treatment to polycystic kidney disease may soon be available, thanks...
Data analysis finds lower risk of infection with LASIK than with…
Credit: University of Tennessee Health Science Center Memphis, Tenn. – Which causes fewer eye infections – contact lens wear or...
Face value
Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates — something our brains just...
Special issue of Journal of Nursing Scholarship confronts climate…
Credit: NOAA Satellites A special issue of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship explores climate change, global health, and the role...
Calcium in arteries influences heart attack risk
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – August 8, 2017 – Patients without calcium buildup in the coronary arteries had significantly lower...
New book examines health challenges for the rapidly urbanizing planet
Toronto – By the year 2100, eight out of ten people in the world will reside in cities – a...
Glowing cancer tool illuminates benign, but dangerous, brain tumors…
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – An experimental imaging tool that uses a targeted fluorescent dye successfully lit up the benign...
New study: Estimated burden of healthcare-associated infections
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the Robert Koch Institute, and the Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National...
Two gifts totaling $150 million add up to bright future for research at Children’s…
Credit: Children's Mercy / BSA Lifestructures Kansas City, Mo. – Jan. 11, 2018 – Two of Kansas City's iconic families...
World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot…
Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 – Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to...
Landmark Alzheimer’s prevention trial to evaluate third drug
Credit: Robert Boston An international team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has selected a third...
History of incarceration linked to subsequent homelessness, study…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, March 1, 2017 — People who have been incarcerated in Canada are more...
Keychain detector could catch food allergens before it’s too late
Credit: The American Chemical Society For kids and adults with food allergies, a restaurant outing can be a fraught experience....
New termite species condemned to 100 years of solitude with a second chance
Credit: Robin Casalla While the last species of the termite genus Proneotermes has been discovered more than a hundred years...
UNIST unveils the genomic mechanism of African clawed frogs
Credit: UNIST Scientists from around the world, including South Korea, Japan, and United States have, for the first time, decoded...
The human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it…
Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK — Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of...
Why don’t Americans have a name for the color ‘light…
Credit: Angela Brown COLUMBUS, Ohio – If a Japanese woman were to compliment a friend on her flattering pale-blue blouse,...
