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Improved compensation, expanded mentorship and training opportunities, and concrete measures to improve workforce diversity are all needed to address attrition...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine About 422 million people around the world, including more than 30 million Americans, have diabetes....

Blood platelets are like the sand bags of the body. Got a cut? Platelets pile in to clog the hole...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Researchers have found a surprising new explanation of how young brains are shaped for sexual behavior later...

Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A class of proteins that has generated significant interest for its...

Credit: Galit Pelled and Assaf Gilad, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- An aquarium fish that senses the Earth's...

Credit: University of Minnesota Analyzing the incidents between residents in dementia in long-term care homes may hold the key to...

Credit: National Institutes of Health/NIH Image Gallery Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a public health threat. TB and other bacteria become resistant...

MossRehab, the renowned physical and cognitive rehabilitation arm of Einstein Healthcare Network, has again been named by U.S. News &...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable lung disease of...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded $6.5 million to a consortium that includes the Icahn Institute for Genomics...

A recent study published in The European Journal of Health Economics finds that the initiation of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM)...

Credit: Lehigh University Personal relationships and home life suffer for those tied to their work emails round-the-clock, according to a...

Credit: Courtesy of Egor Plotnikov. Autophagy is a process of destruction and processing of damaged cell components by the cells...

A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to...

Credit: Adam van Casteren Chimpanzees are generally known as the ripe fruit specialist among the great apes but also incorporate...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Despite promising advances, important scientific questions remain unanswered in the effort to develop a safe and effective...

In Germany, 41 cases of tularemia were reported in 2016. The infections are mainly due to direct contact with infected...

A new type of bed net could prevent millions of cases of malaria, according to new research published in The...

Is breastfeeding really better? The intense debate on this question has been going on for decades -- and is often...