In Afghanistan's most underdeveloped regions, attitudes towards education and child marriage appear to have changed significantly since the overthrow of the Taliban government in 2002,...
Zero TB in Tibetan Kids outreach program aims to eliminate the disease in an entire population in India In a tuberculosis screening and treatment initiative...
Credit: ETH Zurich The rate at which evolution produces new species of plants and animals, or at which existing species die out, is a subject...
A new therapy aimed at improving the sight of people with one of the most common forms of childhood blindness, has shown 'very promising' initial...
Buruli ulcer - one of the most neglected among the NTDs - is a debilitating and stigmatising disease. Affecting mainly children in West and Central...
Scientists say more should be done to tackle the growing environmental impact of takeaway food containers. A new study estimates there are 2025 million takeaway...
New study offers important and novel way to look at 'old problem' of cognitive dysfunctionCredit: Elsevier Chicago, December 18, 2018 Patients who undergo heart surgery...
Credit: NIGPAS Analysis of fossil specimens of a flower called Nanjinganthus from the Early Jurassic (more than 174 million years ago) suggests that flowers originated...
The medication is already used to treat hepatitis C and has passed all human use approval tests, so it can be fairly easily deployed if...
Massachusetts, Colorado, Maryland, California, and Utah are top five for high-tech innovation, education, and investment LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18, 2018 - Massachusetts retained its No....
Heidelberg, 18 December 2018 - EMBO announces today the award of ten Installation Grants to early-career researchers establishing their independent laboratories in the Czech Republic,...
None of the European Union (EU) Member States could demonstrate that they reach the EU target of 75% influenza vaccination coverage for vulnerable groups, according...
Credit: @Reconstruction by Yuan Zhang In a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team led by Professor Baoyu Jiang...
Berlin partners and the University of Oxford consolidate their cooperation The research partnership between the University of Oxford and the four Berlin partners - Freie...
First ever endocast reconstruction of the nearly complete brain of the hominin known as Little Foot reveals a small brain combining ape-like and human-like featuresCredit:...
