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Credit: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) WASHINGTON (November 13, 2018) -- Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) will present Nora...

(Boston)--The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) honored two members of the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) faculty with awards...

Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood During the holiday season, it can be difficult for even the most determined of us...

Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The brains of teenage girls who engage in serious forms of self-harm,...

Credit: Stanford University / York, Fernald Call it instinct, but something compels some animals to behave in certain ways, perhaps...

Could we improve children's learning and wellbeing at school by increasing access to arts activities? Do elderly people living in...

The workshop is being jointly organised by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Federal Office of Consumer...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 13, 2018--A combinatorial gene therapy approach- one designed to inhibit...

Credit: Photo by Evan Krape Today's cataract surgery is often described as a marvel of modern medicine, a one-hour outpatient...

BALTIMORE (November 13, 2018) - Healthcare professionals nationwide are gathering this week to discuss how to improve programs to better...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - As the nights grow longer and winter settles in across the north, a team...

Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk...

Opioid-related overdoses and deaths remain a major public health concern in Massachusetts, yet adolescents who experience opioid-related nonfatal overdose (NFOD)...

Credit: HZDR/Sahneweiss/istockphoto.com/Thomas-Soellner/Molekuul A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University ..

Up to one-third of female smokers with Medicaid deny tobacco use during pregnancy. A new study finds that, despite reservations,...

Patient studies of a new sensing device have proved it can provide early warning of the potential failure of breast...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Leading cancer researcher, Alex Huang MD, PhD, has been awarded a three-year,...

BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 11, 2018--Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) users from Germany's leading academic institutions are now able to move...

Credit: M Salzer, IRB Barcelona With age, our tissues lose their function and capacity to regenerate after being damaged. A...

Fourteen percent of California adults, or roughly 4.2 million individuals, personally own firearms. While the majority (54 percent) of owners...