A new study reveals that preventive medications--such as those to lower blood pressure or cholesterol, or to protect bone health, among others--are commonly prescribed during...
New book explores issue through lens of trans menCredit: University of Minnesota Press What does it mean to a man in America? A new book...
Indigenous peoples in Canada have high rates of psychological distress, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, and these mental health issues are linked to income inequalities,...
Gene interaction networks hold clues to disease susceptibility and treatment responseCredit: Raamesh Deshpande When the Human Genome Project was completed, in 2003, it opened the...
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 25, 2019) - A synthetic peptide appears to directly disrupt the destructive inflammation that occurs...
Data from a landmark study of the world's longest migrating seabird reveals how overland migration is an integral part of their amazing journey. Analysing the...
NEW ORLEANS--Girls are not the only ones who go through puberty early if they have obesity. Boys with obesity enter puberty at an earlier age...
NEW ORLEANS--Increasingly aggressive insurance strategies have lowered the total costs and insurance costs of growth hormone drugs, but those savings are not being passed on...
Using insurance data, study shows that cost to patients and their families has increased over time Philadelphia, March 24, 2019--Despite an FDA approval of growth...
March 24, 2019 - Anyone who trains for a marathon knows that individual running workouts add up over time to yield a big improvement in...
NEW ORLEANS-- Researchers using the world's largest twin registry to study seven autoimmune diseases found the risk of developing the seven diseases is largely inherited,...
NEW ORLEANS--Exposure to tiny air pollution particles may lead to reduced sperm production, suggests new research in mice to be presented Monday, March 25 at...
NEW ORLEANS--Exposure to the widely used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy, even at levels lower than the regulated "safe" human exposure level, can lead...
NEW ORLEANS--The ketogenic diet recently has been touted for weight loss and improving blood sugar control, but a new study finds that females fail to...
NEW ORLEANS--Burosumab, a new injectable medicine to treat X-linked hypophosphatemia (XLH), an inherited form of rickets, demonstrates superior improvements in rickets and other outcomes compared...
