Health

A recent study found that birth defects among male infants fell below expected values after the terrorist attacks of September...

The way we sleep started to change in 1992 with the commercial release of memory foam -- a product originally...

The Future Science Group (FSG) journal Regenerative Medicine, today announces the publication of a new Perspective article, in which Leigh...

Newborn babies instinctively have the ability to crawl to the breast when placed skin-to-skin on the mother's abdomen. New research...

A saliva test developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health nearly matches the performance of...

Credit: Credit: NASA After 45 days in NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), the four-man crew can hardly hold their...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (July 20, 2017) -- The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced today that it has received...

A study has found that antiplatelet drugs, such as aspirin, are often inappropriately prescribed in acutely hospitalized older people. Antiplatelet...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Geckos climb vertically up trees, walls and even windows, thanks to pads on the digits of their...

The program of the upcoming World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics will feature four exclusive sessions designed to aid reporters...

Credit: Tollkuhn Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have opened a black...

Credit: Children's National Health System Like all of the individual elements of fetal development, palate growth is a marvel of...

A review of published studies suggests that infants who have siblings with autism spectrum disorder may have less advanced linguistic...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 19, 2017 -- A panel of leading clinicians and researchers...

A new technology may help to non-invasively analyse lung sounds in children and infants at risk of an asthma attack....

They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In the case of hepatitis C--a disease...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The discovery that the brain can generate new cells - about 700 new neurons each...

A new study has found links between certain antibiotics during pregnancy and major congenital malformations in newborns. The study included...

PHILADELPHIA -- Proteins must be in the right place at the right time in the cell to function correctly. This...

July 19, 2017 - More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are aimed...