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Despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics, the drugs continue to be prescribed at startlingly high...

Credit: Kenneth Olson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The Mekong River, one of the world's largest, traverses six Southeast...

Credit: A.J. Plumptre. A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects...

Credit: Westmead Institute New research has shown how vitamin D may help protect heart tissue and prevent heart failure after...

Credit: Lehigh University Few creatures, aside from humans, have the ability to reshape the world in which they live. The...

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff PORTLAND, Oregon - OHSU physicians and researchers are developing what they hope will be the first permanent...

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery An educational session on opioid abuse and new prescription guidelines led to a 45 percent...

Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth At The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), rheumatologist Shervin Assassi, M.D., is...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When the protein ATAXIN1 accumulates in neurons it causes a neurodegenerative condition called spinocerebellar ataxia...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (March 8, 2018) - Rick D. Wilkerson, DO is the recipient of the American Academy of Orthopaedic...

Farm manure could be a viable source of renewable energy to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming....

NEW YORK (March 8, 2018) - Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive...

New research published today in the journal Current Biology demonstrates how biological sex can modify communication between nerve cells and...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta university AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 8, 2018) - Analysis of the inflammation-promoting proteins in the...

Philadelphia, March 8, 2018 - A new study performed in the Netherlands has linked exposure to residential air pollution during...

The protein FUS, whose mutation or disruption causes many cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), works...

Credit: George Mason University A recent study by George Mason University researchers in the Department of Global and Community Health...

Social issues such as hunger, inadequate housing, social isolation, and poverty are linked to poor health, especially as we age....

(Boston)--Researchers have identified a protein in saliva (histatin-5) that protects the body from traveler's diarrhea. The findings, available online in...