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In a survey-based study of 21,889 adults in Canada, severe and/or frequent physical abuse during childhood and frequent childhood exposure...

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...

Ann Arbor, October 17, 2018 - The burden of risk factors for chronic disease is substantially higher in black men...

Researchers showed that by delivering a combination of antibiotic drugs and probiotics, they could eradicate two strains of drug-resistant bacteria...

T cells help fight off infection, but they can go overboard. A new study led by researchers at the University...

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

During pregnancy, the numerous physiological changes a woman's body undergoes can alter the way medications are metabolized, the rate at...

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animals, killing thousands of people and causing...

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

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Copenhagen finds that more bacterioplankton utilize vitamin B1 or...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Scientists who performed the largest-ever genetic study of a puzzling type of adult-onset diabetes have...

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

Bethesda, MD (Oct. 17, 2018)?-- Traditional laxatives are recommended as first-line agents to treat patients with a confirmed diagnosis of...

Columbus, Ohio - A drug first identified 150 years ago and used as a smooth-muscle relaxant might make tumors more...

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

LUGANO-MUNICH, 17 October 2018 - The Women for Oncology (W4O) Forum at ESMO 2018, Sharing the Power, on Friday, 19...

Credit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (October 17, 2018) -- Ebola virus is a continuing threat in Central...

The 2.7 billion people who live in China and India -- more than a third of the world's population --...

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