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Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded a $452,000 National Institutes of...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Environmental health scientist Alicia Timme-Laragy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a...

Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, June 26, 2017 – Sepsis presents a major challenge for health care providers, especially in low-income...

Credit: © 2017 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2017–Researchers developed a biocompatible scaffold capable of...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 3, 2017 — A new study has shown that the...

Credit: Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) Jan. 30, 2017 – Road traffic injuries are a major cause of disability and are responsible...

Credit: Image: Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory / University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a...

New York, NY, January 7, 2016 – To determine patient eligibility for heart transplant, the International Society for Heart Lung...

HOUSTON — (Nov. 2, 2015) — Rice University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about where the body stores and...

Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY – Sexual preference is influenced by males' adolescent social stress history and social status,...

Credit: Catherine Bouchard Scientists have built a large body of knowledge about Lyme disease over the past 40 years, yet...

Credit: Sun et al., 2016 Researchers have discovered that secondary infection with the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium (or "superbug")...

Credit: The University of Gothenburg Shortness of breath is an often overlooked symptom of what may be heart failure or...

(Philadelphia, PA) – Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which...

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Seventy per cent of readings from home blood pressure monitors are unacceptably inaccurate, which could cause serious...

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School The Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed), the only regional trade body for the medical devices,...

Credit: Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, an investigator at The Saban Research Institute...

Men and women with shorter, wider faces tend to be more sexually motivated and to have a stronger sex drive...

Credit: Children's National Health System Antibiotic resistance continues to grow around the world, with sometimes disastrous results. Some strains of...

Credit: Université de Montréal Humans may have ritualistically "killed" objects to remove their symbolic power, some 5,000 years earlier than...