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CHICAGO (March 9, 2018): For many years, people who sustained severe burn injuries often died. But great strides in burn...

A new study indicates that the kinds of microbes living in the gut influence the severity and recurrence of parasitic...

Illnesses and injuries associated with working in Illinois mines are substantially underreported to the federal agency tasked with tracking these...

Researchers have identified specific genes that may trigger the development of sleep problems, and have also demonstrated a genetic link...

Credit: The lab of Amita Sehgal, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - The blood brain barrier...

Credit: Hiroko Kawai-Toyooka, University of Tokyo. ST. LOUIS, MO, March 8, 2018 - A new study published in the journal...

New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of...

Credit: SFU Cardiovascular physiology researcher Victoria Claydon's latest study, published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, focuses on the results of...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 6, 2018--When older adults suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI),...

Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables:...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II clinical trial, researchers at University of California San...

Walking presents many challenges for patients with Parkinson's disease. Among the most burdensome of these challenges is "freezing of gait,"...

Credit: George Mason University A recent study by George Mason University researchers in the Department of Global and Community Health...

Credit: Antoine Snijders, Jian-Hua Mao, and Bo Hang/Berkeley Lab Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley...

Cardiovascular disease patients have lower levels of an important family of protective molecules in their blood in the morning, which...

Credit: Syam Nukavarapu/UConn Photo A team of UConn Health researchers has designed a novel, hybrid hydrogel system to help address...

WHAT: Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)--preparations of a specific type of antibody designed to bind to a single target--have shown promise in...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta university AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 8, 2018) - Analysis of the inflammation-promoting proteins in the...

(TORONTO, Canada - Wednesday, March 7, 2018) - A simple dietary supplement (L-arginine) was found to improve birth outcomes, paving...

March 8, 2019 -- Investing in diminishing socioeconomic status inequalities and in preventing violent events during childhood may improve the...