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There's plenty that's striking about Phoroncidia rubroargentea, a species of spider native to Madagascar, starting with their size - at...

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- The outside of a cancer cell is bombarded by signals. They come from...

Credit: Courtesy: Drs. Miriam Stoeber and Damien Jullié. A new discovery shows that opioids used to treat pain, such as...

Credit: Rob Jordan and Ian Fitzgerald A Stanford-led study in China has revealed for the first time high levels of...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba - Sperm are highly specialized cells adapted to achieve a single goal: fertilize an egg....

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 11, 2018--Two commentaries in JACM (The Journal of Alternative and...

Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections, one of the most common hospital-acquired infections in children across the United States, are on the...

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Doctors know patients with atrial fibrillation are at a higher risk of having a...

The journal will be led by Kevin J Gaston, Professor of Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Exeter. Gaston...

Credit: Rongsheng Jin, University of California, Irvine Researchers from the University of California, Irvine and Harvard University have discovered how...

Stroke is common and accompanied by complex disabilities--such as lower and upper limb disability, speech impairment, and chronic post-stroke pain....

The osteoporosis drug alendronate was linked with a reduced risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke in a Journal...

Credit: DU CANE MEDICAL IMAGING LTD/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Montreal, May 11 2018 -- Historically, our view of host defense against...

It's unclear whether all patients with advanced rectal cancer need chemoradiotherapy, or whether some can forego the treatment and therefore...

In a study of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older who were asked about sleep disturbances, 56% were estimated...

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today voiced concern over recent reports that budget cuts in Louisiana could terminate Medicaid benefits...

In a British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study of 259 older adults discharged from a general medical hospital, more than...

Obesity is known to cluster in families, but most studies to date are limited to two generations. A new Pediatric...

New research published in BJU International indicates that women with urinary incontinence often have other chronic conditions. The findings have...

In the first study to comprehensively describe where people are diagnosed with HIV in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, investigators...