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Credit: Florida Atlantic University For families faced with the difficult decision of placing a loved one in a nursing home,...

First long-term study on medical marijuana’s impact on opioid use for pain

Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Aug. 8, 2017) — BRONX, NY — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has...

Open data on adolescent health in 41 countries released

IMAGE: This is Professor Oddrun Samdal, HBSC Data Manager. Credit: Thor Brødreskift/University of Bergen A WHO-project on health in the...

Effectiveness of drug to improve natriuretic peptide levels for…

Mihai Gheorghiade, M.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and colleagues randomly assigned 456 patients with worsening...

A higher risk of breast cancer does not motivate many women to have screening checks

SAN DIEGO: Some women, because of genetic predisposition, personal, or family history, have a higher than average lifetime risk of...

Cool lizards are better at learning socially

Bearded dragons which are incubated in colder environments are better at solving cognitive tasks as adults than incubated in warmer...

Poll: Nearly two-thirds of mothers ‘shamed’ by others about their parenting…

Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health Some mommy-shaming "wars" become national news headlines. Actress Reese Witherspoon...

80-year-olds as street-savvy as 18-year-olds

Our gut instinct about whether a stranger poses a threat is as good when we’re 80 as when we’re 18,...

Expression of certain genes may be key to more youthful looking skin

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Some individuals' skin appears more youthful than their chronologic age. Although many...

Crowding in the skin

Credit: MPI f. Biology of Ageing Human skin is a remarkable organ serving as a barrier protecting us from pathogens,...

Scientists use magnetic fields to remotely stimulate brain — and control body…

Credit: Credit: Munshi et al, eLife BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists have used magnetism to activate tiny groups of cells in...

Refuting the idea that mutations cause cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center What causes cancer? Smoking, certainly, and also things like sun and chemical exposure. Cancer...

New study on reasons for low rates of blood glucose monitoring in type…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 21, 2017–Researchers in China who assessed self-monitoring of blood glucose...

Death rate for depressed heart patients double than for non-depressed heart patients

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center People who are diagnosed with coronary artery disease and then develop depression face a risk of...

From mice, clues to microbiome’s influence on metabolic disease

Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. — The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has...

Method to identify bacteria in blood samples works in hours instead of…

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a desktop diagnosis...

Yin and yang of serotonin neurons in mood regulation

(NEW YORK, NY)–Low levels of serotonin in the brain are known to play a role in depression and anxiety, and...

‘Corrective glass’ for mass spectrometry imaging

Credit: Benjamin Bartels, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology The chemical analysis of biological tissues with three-dimensional shapes has been...

Harvard chemists develop simple new platform for development of macrolide antibiotics

Credit: B. D. Colen/Harvard University Harvard researchers have created a new, greatly simplified, platform for antibiotic discovery that may go...

Half of primary care doctors provide unnecessary specialty referrals…