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Bethesda, MD (Aug. 17, 2018) -- More than 60 percent of American adults weigh more than is healthy, which results in increased health issues for...

Credit: Olivia Walton Scientists have revisited - and confirmed - one of the most famous textbook examples of evolution in action. They showed that differences...

Credit: Public domain Washington, DC-- When it comes to aerosol pollution, as the old real estate adage says, location is everything. Aerosols are tiny particles...

Policymakers and public health experts have long recognized the harm that can come to fetuses if women use drugs during pregnancy. As U.S. states legalize...

Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 17, 2018 - Adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya are more likely to experience higher risks of...

Credit: Photo courtesy of USDA. Primary school students are more likely to eat a nutritional breakfast when given 10 extra minutes to do so, according...

Credit: Children's National Health System Oxygen deprivation associated with preterm birth leaves telltale signs on the brains of newborns in the form of alterations to...

Credit: Image by Devin S. Fitzgerald. Dartmouth scientists have created a more sustainable feed for aquaculture by using a marine microalga co-product as a feed...

Credit: Texas A&M University Formation of new blood vessels, a process also known as angiogenesis, is one of the major clinical challenges in wound healing...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Patients with focal epilepsy that does not respond to medications badly need alternative treatments. In a first-in-humans pilot study, researchers...

Credit: Xuemei Ji, M.D., Ph.D. LEBANON, NH - Lung cancer is the leading cause of preventable cancer death. A disease of complex origin, lung cancer...

Credit: University of Pennsylvania Dr. Shlomo Benartzi has been named a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Behavior Change for Good (BCFG) Initiative....

Credit: Chris Brava While global incidence rates of HIV have declined notably in recent years, the virus that causes AIDS remains a major and, in...

Credit: Wieslaw Kozak, Tomasz Jedrzejewski, Malgorzata Pawlikowska, Jakub Piotrowski, and Sylwia Wrotek Recurring patterns in patient accounts suggest the existence of an inverse relationship betwe..

What do shark attack, the lottery and ovarian cancer screening having in common? It turns out our judgments about these things are all influenced by...