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March 13, 2018 - "Has this patient been drinking?" It's a critical question for neurosurgical nurses and other professionals when...

Patients with multimorbidity--two or more long-term medical conditions--have complex health care needs, often requiring higher levels of care than other...

Irvine, Calif., March 13, 2018 -- From a massive open online course countering science skepticism to intimate culinary workshops fostering...

RIVERSIDE, CA. - Here's a blind test taste like Pepsi never imagined. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently...

Credit: Shunsuke Utsumi Generally, spatial and temporal factors affect how communities of organisms are shaped in an ecosystem. Understanding the...

Key takeaways: In 2016, the U.S. spent nearly twice as much as other high-income countries on healthcare, yet had poorer...

Among primary care patients with subthreshold depression, mindfulness meditation training reduces the incidence of major depression and improves depression symptoms....

For patients diagnosed with glioma, a deadly form of brain tumor, the future can be very uncertain. While gliomas are...

Credit: NASA JPL/Caltech Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a microbial detection technique so...

Credit: Umilaela Arifin Indonesia, a megadiverse country spanning over 17,000 islands located between Australia and mainland Asia, is home to...

ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The anti-inflammatory drug canakinumab had no effect on rates of newly diagnosed diabetes in people...

Credit: Lincoln D. Nadauld, email: [email protected] The use of advanced molecular diagnostic technologies, such as Next-Generation Sequencing based gene panel...

BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, University of Western Australia, University of Sydney, and Edith Cowan...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells and tissues,...

Water Efficient Sorghum Technologies (WEST) will showcase new advances that dramatically reduce water requirements for crops, while also increasing productivity,...

Fear of making mistakes and wider concerns about their social responsibility are among reasons why older people are rejecting digital...

Credit: Bhairavi Tolani, email: [email protected] David M. Jablons, email: [email protected] Even though the Shh pathway is mainly quiescent in adults,...

Credit: Nature Microbiology/Dermody Lab PITTSBURGH, March 12, 2018 - Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells...

ITHACA, N.Y. - A tree will drop hundreds of seedlings over the course of its lifetime, but only a small...

Credit: © D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards"...