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Hookah tobacco labels are misleading, Roswell Park, UB researchers…
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Label information on many hookah tobacco products is misleading and may be misinterpreted...
Expanding waistlines and metabolic syndrome: Researchers warn of new ‘silent…
Credit: Florida Atlantic University For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from...
Treacherous correlation in the brain from smoking
Credit: Photo by Cecilia Hedström. Out with the cigarette pack, put a cigarette in the mouth and light up. That...
Medical students not trained to prescribe medical marijuana
Credit: Washington University School of Medicine Although 29 states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana use for medical purposes,...
Feathered fathers and mothers have diverse parenting arrangements
Credit: Nature MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Birds of a feather flock together but they schedule parenting duties differently, according to a...
Large, innovative autism project sparks hope for better treatments
Credit: Sarah Pack No words can describe how happy Quanita Estell is to hear her six-year-old son come home with...
Quest to prevent Macular degeneration continues with UA…
Credit: Kris Hanning, UAHS BioCommunications TUCSON, Ariz. – After showing that individuals who take levodopa, or l-dopa, for movement disorders...
Murine study finds potential boost for ovarian cancer drug Olaparib
Credit: Qu et al., 2017 Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that the metabolic enzyme phosphoglycerate mutase...
New study examines child death rates in motor vehicle crashes by state
Credit: The Journal of Pediatrics Boston, MA– Unintentional injury is the leading cause of pediatric death in the U.S. and...
The only detox you’ll ever need (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2017 — People talk all the time about how they need to...
Short-term exercise equals big-time brain boost
Credit: Western University, London, Canada A 10-minute, one-time burst of exercise can measurably boost your brain power, at least temporarily,...
New book on Chromatin Deregulation in Cancer from CSHLPress
Credit: Figure adapted by Meredith Cassuto, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, from the cover of The human genome is packaged into...
Heart attack risk doubled for people with less education according to new Australian…
Credit: CC0 License People who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a...
New clues found to how ‘cruise-ship’ virus gets inside cells
Norovirus is the most common viral cause of diarrhea worldwide, but scientists still know little about how it infects people...
New research uncovers pattern in global flu outbreaks
Credit: Center for Disease Control As cold winter weather approaches, millions of people look for remedies to avoid the flu....
NIH explores connection between Ebola survival and co-infection with…
Credit: NIAID People infected with Ebola virus were 20 percent more likely to survive if they were co-infected with malaria-causing...
New book on Targeting Cancer from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 49.1184 Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Cold Spring...
New guidelines discourage use of brain imaging as a ‘lie detector’ for chronic pain
Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada – Sept. 8, 2017) – A task force consisting of researchers from around the world and...
High-fat diet prompts immune cells to start eating connections between…
AUGUSTA, Ga. – When a high-fat diet causes us to become obese, it also appears to prompt normally bustling immune...
The HLF-gene controls the generation of our long-term immune system
David Bryder Credits: Gunnar Menander A research group at Lund University in Sweden has found that when the HLF (hepatic...
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