Credit: E. Wikander/Azote/Stockholm University New research from Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet shows that viruses interact with proteins in the biological fluids of their host...
Canada should reinvent the Motherisk program to support pregnant women to have healthy babies, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "The loss...
Licorice tea, a popular herbal tea, is not without health risks, as a case study of a man admitted to hospital for a high-blood pressure...
Despite potential for prolonging survival with treatment, one-third of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer do not see a medical oncologist, and even more do not...
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers from Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg present a new method which can double...
Apples originally evolved in the wild to entice ancient megafauna to disperse their seeds; more recently, humans began spreading the trees along the Silk Road...
Credit: University of York Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world's rivers exceed 'safe' levels by up to 300 times, the first ever...
The first-ever international collaborative report has compared the experiences of multiple-birth babies and their families to single-birth familiesCredit: Donnie Ray Jones, Flickr Having multiple-birth babies...
Athens, Greece - 26 May 2019: Drug therapy for patients with stable heart failure can be simplified by stopping diuretics, according to late breaking results...
Canadian neuroscientists offer insights into the long-term effects of adolescent cannabis use About one in five Canadian adolescents uses cannabis (19% of Canadians aged 15-19),...
Athens, Greece - 26 May 2019: Elderly patients with heart failure who see a pharmacist once a week are more likely to take their tablets...
Athens, Greece - 25 May 2019: Adrenomedullin activity predicts which acute heart failure patients are at the greatest risk of death without diuretic treatment post-discharge,...
Credit: Fu Zhang/Penn State A technique that introduces carbon-hydrogen molecules into a single atomic layer of the semiconducting material tungsten disulfide dramatically changes the electronic...
Credit: Andre L.C. Franco/ Colorado State University The clearing and subsequent instability of Amazonian forests are among the greatest threats to tropical biodiversity conservation today....
Plant deaths from disturbances like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill accelerate shoreline lossCredit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A new Duke University-led study finds that...
