Health

Cellphone use while driving has been estimated to increase crash risk by 2-9 times and texting while driving may be...

Credit: Mattheau Comerford/Rice University Early this spring, Rice University evolutionary biologist Scott Egan stood in a patch of live oak...

Credit: CNIO Negative results and findings in science are perhaps less newsworthy, but they are no less important. Particularly when,...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The human body produces many antimicrobial peptides that help the immune system fend off infection. Scientists hoping...

A drug policy researcher is proposing a suite of changes to overhaul the Multi-Criteria Drug Harm Scale (MCDHS), which informs...

CHICAGO--August 20, 2018--The emerging field of diabetology--a sub-specialty of endocrinology focused on the treatment of people with diabetes--is intended to...

(University of Helsinki) A new doctoral thesis gives information on the neural basis of the sense of touch. According to...

CHICAGO (August 20, 2018): An estimated 30 percent of all diseases globally require surgical care and expertise,* yet global surgeons...

New Haven, Conn.-- Yale researchers have identified racial disparities in the treatment of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic...

Credit: IMS Health and Quintiles Frankfurt, Germany, August 20, 2018: Osteoporosis is estimated to affect 200 million women across the...

Credit: Nedivi Lab/Picower Institute A new study provides fresh evidence that the decline in the capacity of brain cells to...

Monday, August 20th, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - When adults are participants in school recess - leading games, monitoring play and ensuring conflicts are mediated...

A new study provides insights into the degree to which socioeconomic status explains racial and ethnic disparities in childhood cancer...

Credit: Eurosurveillance More than half of the severe listeriosis cases in the European Union belong to clusters, many of which...

SAN FRANCISCO--August 20, 2018--To fight viral infections, your immune system calls on CD8 T cells to kill the infected cells....

Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan. ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Seventy-eight...

(Boston)--Jesse Mez, MD, MS, assistant professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received a three-year, $1.2...

Credit: Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Each year in the U.S., at least 23,000 people die from infections caused...

DALLAS, Aug. 20, 2018 -- Chagas disease, caused by infection with a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi (T cruzi), causes chronic...