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Credit: Kessler Foundation Kessler Foundation scientists Denise Fyffe, PhD, Anthony Lequerica, PhD, and John O'Neill, PhD, have won a $75,000...

Social media for medical journals operates in ‘wild west,’ needs more support to succeed

CHICAGO --- Much of the published medical research goes unread by the general public and medical community, despite being largely...

ANU researchers find new disease

Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered a new genetic disease and a method for detecting more unexplained...

UToledo research finds link between refined dietary fiber, gut bacteria and liver cancer

Credit: Dan Miller, University of Toledo Many of the processed foods we find on grocery store shelves have been loaded...

Stem cell biologist Sean Morrison elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 15, 2018 - UT Southwestern Professor Dr. Sean Morrison, Director of the Children's Medical...

Mice need a clutch to smell

Credit: Naoyuki Inagaki The brain can discriminate over one trillion different odors. Once entering the nose, an odor activates olfactory...

Johns Hopkins researchers detail how middlemen suppliers can increase hospital bills and drug prices

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Hospitals should be cautious of group purchasing organizations, or entities that act as middlemen between health...

UT Southwestern researcher wins Breakthrough Prize for innate immunity discovery

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 17, 2018 - UT Southwestern biochemist Dr. Zhijian "James" Chen today was named winner...

Mindfulness-based program may help reduce stress in infertile women

An eight-week mindfulness-based program was effective for reducing stress and depressive symptoms while increasing general well-being in a study of...

Novel switching valve to receive more semen in a sex-role reversed cave insect

Credit: Photo provided by Kazunori Yoshizawa. The Brazilian cave insect Neotrogla are of special evolutionary and morphological interest because of...

Going to bed with your ex might not be as bad you think

Conventional wisdom holds that people set themselves up for even greater heartache when they jump into bed with their ex-partner...

Thanks to $1.72 million federal grant: UA researchers using green light for HIV-related pain

Credit: Photo: Bob Demers/UANews After proving surprisingly beneficial in human clinical trials at the University of Arizona for the treatment...

Study examines aspects of conscientious objection among nurses

One-on-one interviews with eight nurses in Ontario revealed that nurses making conscientious objections to ethically-relevant policies lack concrete supports and...

Blue crab baby sizes and shapes influence their survival

Credit: Joseph Caracappa/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Like people, blue crabs aren't all the same sizes and shapes. Now Rutgers scientists have...

Breastfeeding protects infants from antibiotic-resistant bacteria

A recent study completed at the University of Helsinki investigated the amount and quality of bacteria resistant to antibiotics in...

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67th Annual Meeting

Fighting the Latest Ebola Scare, Tackling Disease Outbreaks, Pandemic Flu Concerns, Probing Tick Spit for Cures, Diseases in the Aftermath...

Prescription opioid and benzodiazepine misuse linked with suicidal thoughts

Misuse of prescription opioids or benzodiazepines (such as Xanax) was associated with suicidal ideation in a study of US older...

Breakthrough Prize to CSHL professor for SMA research

Credit: CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer today received the 2019 Breakthrough...

New imaging tool captures how sound moves through the chinchilla ear