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Too much dietary zinc increases susceptibility to infection by Clostridium difficile — “C. diff” — the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections. Eric Skaar, Ph.D.,...

Sight, touch and hearing are our windows to the world: these sensory channels send a constant flow of information to the brain, which acts to...

Mice placed on a low-calorie diet are less likely to develop abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to a new study in The Journal of Experimental Medicine....

Increasing stomach fat — especially the “hidden fat” in your abdomen — is associated with newly identified and worsening heart disease risk factors, according to...

If you survive cancer at young age, then you have a higher risk of becoming unemployed and economically dependent than others, a Norwegian study shows....

Survival rates for elderly patients who received stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) rose from roughly 40 to...

A new analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has provided the strongest evidence to date that nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is...

It has become commonly accepted that women do worse than men following a heart attack or other coronary event. Earlier studies have documented that young...

Researchers using DNA sequencing to profile antibiotic resistance in infection have achieved a turnaround time from ‘sample to answer’ of less than four hours for...

A research group at Uppsala University has investigated how levels of endocannabinoids — which target the same receptors as cannabis — are affected by short...

Glioblastomas are incurable malignant brain tumors. Usually the patients affected survive for only a few months. In addition, every tumor is quite different, which makes...

Stimulating the brain via electricity or other means may help to ease the symptoms of various neurological and psychiatric disorders, with the method already being...

Researchers in Uruguay have developed an evolutionary algorithm to allow a smart city to facilitate efficient taxi sharing to cut an individual’s transport costs as...

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus is capable of rapid genetic adaptation in both natural environments and in humans according to a study published in The Lancet...

Having a happy spouse may be related to better health, at least among middle-aged and older adults, according to a new study published by the...