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After major global successes in the battle against malaria, the positive trend stalled around 2015 - apart from in Zanzibar...

Relevant specialist, matron, and quality and safety lead involvement key to approach, say study authors Hospital bereavement services that are...

And 60 minutes of daily physical activity was associated with the best chance of reaching 90 for women Body size-height...

Practice thought to be good for health and to lower risk of lifestyle diseases Leaving a two-hour gap between the...

Ancient eel-like creature answers questions about when these bizarre fish branched off the evolutionary tree from other vertebratesCredit: Tetsuto Miyashita,...

Credit: Kenichi Tsuda Unlike animals, plants cannot move freely to escape from life-threatening conditions. This constraint means that they require...

Credit: Dr. Vadim Axelrod Imagine a world where everyone has the same face. That would be a very different world...

Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Our brains seem to reduce sensory perception from an area of our skin when we touch...

Education, job complexity and intellectual activities play only minor roles Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) -- the diverse set...

Life experience may be transmitted from one generation to the next through changes in gene expression, parental caretakingCredit: Kalogeraki, Yusifov,...

Approach reduces seizures by 93 percent in three monthsCredit: Giovanna Paolone A protein-secreting device implanted into the hippocampus of epileptic...

New animal model could improve understanding of post-traumatic epilepsyCredit: Alexys Harrington Researchers have identified a cellular response to repeated concussions...

Credit: BC Children's Hospital Research Institute Up to one-third of pregnant women do not believe cannabis is harmful to their...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The search for a mechanism that could explain how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory...

New printing technique and materials could be used to develop intelligent materials and self-adaptive infrastructures and transducersCredit: Photo by H....

Test also may identify neurodegeneration in other brain diseases, injuries A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage...

Hyperexcitability of neurons not due to lowered inhibition because brain compensates A detailed study of four mouse models of autism...

Publication in Nature Medicine Years before symptoms of Alzheimer's disease manifest, the brain starts changing and neurons are slowly degraded....

The world's first genetic sequencing of precancerous lung lesions could pave the way for very early detection and new treatments,...

Scientists discover new genes and biological pathways linked to osteoarthritis, which could help identify starting points for new medicines In...