Health

Majority of Chinese who were diagnosed with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes in 2011 said they were unaware of having...

Credit: On the cover: Somebody Wants to Know, by Ludovic Laffineur, soft pastel on paper, 120 x 85 cm. Courtesy...

A new book co-written by a University of Kent sports scientist recommends corporations and organisations engage more effectively with communities...

Credit: Valentina Arkhipova, University of Groningen Many biomolecules come in two versions that are each other's mirror image, like a...

Discovery of mutations in ACTL6B gene offers insight into brain development Mutations in a gene involved in brain development have...

Covalently closed circular RNAs (circRNAs) are produced by precursor mRNA back-splicing the exons of thousands of genes in eukaryotes. They...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 25, 2019 -- Skunks are nocturnal animals that prefer to keep to themselves....

Beneficial and harmful effects seen from viewing season 2 of the Netflix seriesCredit: Annenberg Public Policy Center. Published in Social...

First report to document in-hospital outcomes related to major vascular injury in patients treated for gunshot injuries (Boston)--Researchers from Boston...

Study suggests widespread screening may lower morbidity and mortality for Amish and Mennonites WILMINGTON, Del. (April 25, 2019) - Researchers...

Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Acute hepatitis C infections rose 98 percent between 2010 and 2015 nationwide, largely because more people were...

Researchers at the George Washington University found the protein dermcidin has the greatest fold change in the chronic skin disease...

A correlation was found between strong feelings of responsibility and likelihood of developing OCD or GAD in American university studentsCredit:...

The vaccine proves safe in a small sample of human subjects, opening the way for the next phase of testing...

It is the second most notified sexually transmitted infection in the EU/EEACredit: ECDC Following a decline in notification rates in...

For decades, patients with liver disease related to alcohol use have been told they must be sober for six months...

The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation...

Future Science Group (FSG) has begun supplying full-text articles to Jisc's Publications Router service, enabling onward distribution to institutional repositories...

Using data from the 2016 National Health Interview Survey, Johns Hopkins researchers report that few American adults eligible for diabetes...

Credit: RIKEN Scientists have discovered a neurological origin for absence seizures--a type of seizure characterized by very short periods of...