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Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON -- An electronic sepsis alert using a combination of vital signs, risk factors...

Credit: Courtesy of Choi-Fong Cho, Brigham and Women's Hospital Delivering drugs to the brain is no easy task. The blood-brain...

The 2017 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize has been awarded to five scientists for transformative discoveries in the field of cancer...

Credit: Saint Louis University In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Saint Louis University professor of physics Jean Potvin,...

How do we make decisions? Or rather, how do our neurons make decisions for us? Do individual neurons have a...

Herbivore gut fungi hold a lot of promise. Just ask Michelle O'Malley. "Most of what we do that resonates with...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) affects over 300,000 people worldwide each year, and most patients already...

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center The study tested the efficacy of tildrakizumab, an antibody that targets only a very...

Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - Last summer, farmers in the Midwest got an unwelcome surprise after planting native...

Credit: Paula Burch-Celentano/Tulane University Over the last decade, many drugs that have been pulled from the market due to toxicity...

Credit: Nick Kerhoulas. For hundreds of years, a species of flying squirrel was hiding right under (actually, above) our noses....

Credit: © UNIGE / Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan Things couldn't be simpler at the start: the cells divide into two identical cells...

Credit: Johan Wingborg A newly discovered mechanism behind reduced insulin production in type 2 diabetes is now being presented. In...

Under the pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions could range from 47...

Credit: Steve Schar COLUMBIA, Mo. - As the summer months approach, most people turn to thoughts of sunshine, outdoor barbecues...

Credit: NIST When scientists need to identify an unknown compound, they do what a police detective might do. They get...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Results of a 303-patient, multi-national phase III clinical trial known as ALEX published today...

The promising drug is known as F8-TNF. When injected into the bloodstream, it lures killer cells from the body's immune...

(University of Texas at Austin) Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating...

Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents you can use to state in advance what medical treatments you do or do...