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Credit: University of Otago University of Otago researchers have helped characterise a genetic variant that enables new understanding of why...

Credit: Gil Costa, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown Though it has been many millennia since human lives were regularly threatened...

Credit: Johns Hopkins University In a proof of concept study, scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have successfully performed 3D...

Doctors should consider treating chronic pain patients with sugar pills Placebo pills relieve pain as effectively as drugs for half...

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Whether we like it or not, everyone accumulates fat. For women, it...

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability originating in childhood. Approximately 2 of...

Credit: University of Utah Health While about 11 percent of children (4-17 years old) nationwide have been diagnosed with attention-deficit...

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), in collaboration with The Children's Hospital of San Antonio and the Autism...

Credit: AAIH WASHINGTON, DC, Sept 13th, 2018 - Pharmaceutical R&D efficiency has declined to a stall, as clinical trial failure...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Nearly 2.3 million times last year, Americans learned they had a sexually transmitted disease. But despite...

People who use drugs in New York City have adjusted their behaviors to avoid overdose, finds a study by the...

Credit: American Chemical Society Although some people embrace the saying "bald is beautiful," for others, alopecia, or excessive hair loss,...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Your body's blood cells are manufactured by hematopoietic stem cells in bone marrow. But...

Credit: Fred Pineda, postdoctoral fellow, the University of Chicago Medicine Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead...

Philadelphia, September 12, 2018 A study in cocaine-addicted rats reports long-lasting increases in the number of neurons that produce orexin--a...

Older adults fitted with a cochlear implant to compensate for severe hearing loss have significantly poorer cognitive function than their...

The majority of partnered, home-dwelling people in the U.S. with dementia are sexually active, according to a University of Chicago...

Scientific and medical institutions must fundamentally reconsider how they address sexual harassment in the workplace, three national leaders in gender...

Myocardial infarction - commonly known as a heart attack - is still one of the main causes of death. According...

A Cambridge start-up has developed a low-cost next-generation wearable heart and cardiovascular function monitor which uses AI to diagnose heart...