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The number of people who died as a result of Hurricane Maria -- which hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017 -- may be as...

Credit: UIC Data from a lung cancer screening program at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides evidence that national lung cancer screening guidelines, which...

The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and 3D Systems have signed a collaboration agreement to provide simulation equipment and event services for training centres for use...

The Affordable Care Act - or Obamacare - most benefitted those closest to the federal poverty line, a study led by Drexel University researchers shows....

Credit: Hari Prasad Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found new evidence in lab-grown mouse brain cells, called astrocytes, that one root of Alzheimer's...

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in patients with lupus, a systemic autoimmune disease. In a new study in Arthritis & Rheumatology--a journal...

Scientists have created an elaborate map of more than a billion brain cell connections, helping to shed light on how memories are formed and recalled....

Credit: Andrew Hill Scientists have completed a major effort to map the regulatory landscape of the mouse genome at a single-cell resolution. The team applied...

August 2, 2018 - A long-term follow-up study from Australia confirms that hip implants with components made of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) substantially lower the risk...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--A new study using machine learning has identified brain-based dimensions of mental health disorders, an advance towards much-needed biomarkers to more accurately...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 2, 2018--Metabolomics is the latest omics systems science technology with emerging applications towards psychiatry, personalized...

(Boston)--The world's rising obesity epidemic is associated with a broad spectrum of ailments including atherosclerosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) disease. Each condition can progress...

Alzheimer's disease is an increasingly prevalent, neurodegenerative condition that erodes memory and other cognitive functions. Treatments for this complex disease have been elusive, although res..

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team has used epigenome editing tools to investigate how the genetic abnormality that drives Ewing sarcoma - the second...

August 2, 2018 - Pain is a frequent problem for children with complex medical conditions -but many of them are unable to communicate their pain...