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San Francisco, January 8, 2019 - A pilot program to reduce lead poisoning in Nigerian gold mining communities has brought extraordinary improvements to an area...

Newly developed medicine could be used to treat hundreds of thousands of patients with tuberculosisCredit: Maxwell Photography Tuesday, 8 January 2019: Led by researchers at...

Undifferentiated uterine sarcoma is a very rare but extremely aggressive cancer type. It can be divided into four groups with different characteristics of clinical importance...

Washington, DC - January 8, 2019 - Clostridium difficile causes the most common and most dangerous hospital-born infections in the United States and around the...

Mice with AD-like symptoms receiving supplemental levels of choline in the womb improved their spatial memory. A second generation bred from these choline-treated mice also...

Credit: Nigel Larkin, taken at Royal Veterinary College, London A nearly metre-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found in a farmer's field more...

Kaiser Permanente study supports routine vaccination of patients during hospital stays Hospitalized patients who received the flu vaccine had no increased risk of outpatient visits...

CRISPR-based method sterilizes male insects for population suppression of agricultural pests and disease-carrying mosquitoesCredit: Nikolay Kandul, Akbari Lab, UC San Diego Using the CRISPR gene...

Successful implementation depends on nurses who champion the cause Selective tinkering with the medical center's electronic health records (EHR) system, plus a 20-minute presentation to...

Many cat owners worry about their pets wandering the streets, but perceive cats hunting mice and birds to be unavoidable instinct, researchers at the University...

Facebook use linked to perceptions of worsening physical health, new research from the University of Surrey, reports. In the first study of its kind, published...

New to science, the species was named after Pluto, the ruler of the underworld in Greek mythologyCredit: Ignacio Ribera A diving beetle demonstrating various adaptations...

Credit: Benjamin Tapley. An international collaboration led by scientists from the National University of Ireland, Galway, The University of St Andrews, Trinity College Dublin and...

Researchers use artificial intelligence to support instant diagnosis of a top cause of blindness, diabetes-related eye diseaseCredit: RMIT University Researchers have used artificial intelligence to...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 8, 2019) - There's more evidence that a high-fat diet is bad for both younger...