Health

PISCATAWAY, NJ - Alcohol advertisements on social media sites such as Facebook can increase young adults' desire to drink if the ads contain pro-drinking comments from users. That's accordin..
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Credit: Hannes Baur Representing a group of successful biocontrol agents for various pest fruit flies, a parasitic wasp genus remains largely overlooked. While its most recent identification key da..
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WASHINGTON -- A defining feature of Parkinson's disease is the clumps of alpha-synuclein protein that accumulate in the brain's motor control area, destroying dopamine-producing neurons. Nat..
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Credit: Elsevier New York, November 14, 2018 The Editors of Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation, and Elsevier, the information analytics business specia..
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A community engagement campaign launched by Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health to address mental health barriers had an impressive reach with the younger audience it targeted and showed si..
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Credit: Johnny Tam, Ph.D. By combining two imaging modalities--adaptive optics and angiography--investigators at the National Eye Institute (NEI) can see live neurons, epithelial cells, and blood v..
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Frontiers in Computational Chemistry presents contemporary research on molecular modeling techniques used in drug discovery and the drug development process: computer aided molecular design, drug disc..
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This monograph updates readers on new avenues in the world of food biotechnology. Chapters in the volume cover topics related to (1) food bioactive peptides and functional properties of proteins,..
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Credit: CU Boulder Expect a shot to hurt and it probably will, even if the needle poke isn't really so painful. Brace for a second shot and you'll likely flinch again, even though - second..
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Credit: Photo by Evan Krape Today's cataract surgery is often described as a marvel of modern medicine, a one-hour outpatient procedure that has spared millions from blindness, especially in d..
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Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) WASHINGTON (November 13, 2018) -- Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) will present Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug..
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BALTIMORE (November 13, 2018) - Healthcare professionals nationwide are gathering this week to discuss how to improve programs to better control antibiotic use in healthcare facilities. The Antimicrob..
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Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood During the holiday season, it can be difficult for even the most determined of us to stick to a healthy diet. A piece of Halloween candy here, a pumpki..
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Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - As the nights grow longer and winter settles in across the north, a team of health researchers is using a "community mobilization" approach to translate resea..
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