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Credit: Abbott Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates,...

Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them...

Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that...

Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often...

Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an...

Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But...

With renewed public interest in manned space exploration comes the potential need to diagnose and treat medical issues encountered by...

A transformative gift of $10 million from the Irving Ludmer Family Foundation in support of the Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics...

In-Cell-Art (ICA), a biotechnology company specialized in nanocarrier technologies, BioNet-Asia (BNA), an innovative vaccine developer, and the research team led...

Credit: Matt Miller Children as young as 3 can be clinically depressed, and often that depression recurs as kids get...

The importance of the human brown adipose tissue (BAT) has become clearer during the past ten years. Using positron emission...

Credit: © Margret Bülow/Julia Sellin "Lorenzo's Oil" was to help a seriously ill boy suffering from a peroxisomal disorder (adrenoleukodystrophy/ALD)....

Our ability to learn, remember, problem solve, and speak are all cognitive functions related to different parts of our brain....

Prescribing of medications has traditionally been restricted to physicians, but there is growing support to allow pharmacists to do so...

Credit: University of British Columbia Recovering from the suicide of a friend, partner or family member can be emotionally challenging...

For a pregnancy to proceed to term, early modulation of the immunologic response is required to induce tolerance to the...

With increasing organ demand, living kidney donation from older donors has become more common. A new Clinical Transplantation study indicates...

Credit: European Psychiatry Philadelphia, June 20, 2018 - A study published in European Psychiatry reports on factors underlying the current...

Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. In a pilot study by a team of researchers...

A brief report published in Acta Paediatrica points to the dangers of replacing breast milk or infant formula with a...