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ANN ARBOR--One question that scientists and fitness experts alike would love to answer is whether exercise or nutrition has a...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Cancer patients could be spared unnecessary chemotherapy - and its side effects -...

DURHAM, N.H. - As winter in New England seems to get warmer, fall lingers longer and spring comes into bloom...

Scientists say there is not yet enough evidence to conclude that microplastics do or do not cause harm to the...

There just aren't enough kidney transplants available for the millions of people with renal failure. Aside from a transplant, the...

Credit: Cleveland Clinic October 17, 2018, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic's Genomic Medicine Institute, is receiving...

Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. October 17, 2018. Researchers have proposed a conceptual framework for examining the relationship between...

Found in saliva, the protein enzyme encoded by the AMY1 gene begins the digestive process by breaking down starch when...

WHAT: 11th World Stroke Congress brings together leading international stroke experts and an unparalleled scientific program covering epidemiology, prevention, acute...

Credit: Stepan Likhachev The employees of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dmitry Zaitsev and Dmitry Tsvetkov and a...

Credit: (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) Investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases give rise to big data volumes. Their systematic analysis...

Credit: Bansal et al., PLOS Computational Biology, October 2018, available under CC BY license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The architecture...

RIVERSIDE, CAL. (http://www.ucr.edu) - A UCR psychology researcher says the bar is too low for "functional independence" in older adults,...

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

ARLINGTON, Va., October 17, 2018 -- In the first randomized, phase II clinical trial of its kind, researchers have shown...

Credit: American Cancer Society ATLANTA - October 17, 2018 - The American Cancer Society will bestow its highest honor -...

Credit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine The Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received...

Montreal, Canada (October 17, 2018) - Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN)...

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