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(Philadelphia, PA) – Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which...

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Seventy per cent of readings from home blood pressure monitors are unacceptably inaccurate, which could cause serious...

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School The Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed), the only regional trade body for the medical devices,...

Credit: Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, an investigator at The Saban Research Institute...

Men and women with shorter, wider faces tend to be more sexually motivated and to have a stronger sex drive...

Credit: Children's National Health System Antibiotic resistance continues to grow around the world, with sometimes disastrous results. Some strains of...

Credit: Université de Montréal Humans may have ritualistically "killed" objects to remove their symbolic power, some 5,000 years earlier than...

Credit: NIEHS NIH rat study suggests amitriptyline temporarily inhibits the blood-brain barrier, allowing drugs to enter the brain. New research...

Credit: University of Utah A Utah law has led to increased early identification of infants with hearing loss due to...

Credit: C. Maillo, IRB Barcelona This condition generally leads to chronic inflammation (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), which can trigger fibrosis, cirrhosis and...

Preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale at...

Credit: UIC Patients diagnosed at high-volume centers are up to 40 percent more likely to receive treatment for glioblastoma, according...

Credit: Paul Joseph/UBC Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a better way to identify unwanted animal products...

Credit: Dr. Adam Levine PROVIDENCE, R.I. –To properly treat young children with severe diarrhea, caregivers in clinics long on patients...

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 6, 2015 – University of Utah chemists devised a new way to detect chemical damage to...

Credit: Osaka University Malaria*1 is one of three major infectious diseases*2 affecting approximately 300 million people every year, accounting for...

Credit: Mackenzie Gerringer/University of Washington The ocean's deepest fish doesn't look like it could survive in harsh conditions thousands of...

Credit: NASA While it's true that space radiation is one of the biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars,...

Credit: Hafner Lab/Rice University HOUSTON – (Feb. 15, 2017) – Five years of hard work and a little "cosmic luck"...

People with blood type O often get more severely ill from cholera than people of other blood types. New research...