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Regardless of race or ethnicity, patients were 33 percent less likely to receive any palliative care for metastatic cancer at hospitals primarily serving minorities For...

Credit: NIMHD Health disparities have persisted, despite extensive research and a decades-long mandate to eliminate them. Thus, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health...

Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire release nTIDE Report -- Monthly Update -- with a focus on representing disability in the entertainment industry and...

URBANA, Ill. - Rice coproducts in pig diets add fat and fiber, but too much fiber can decrease energy absorption and digestibility. A recent study...

Credit: ATS Feb. 1, 2019--The American Thoracic Society has developed a new clinical practice guideline for home oxygen therapy for children. The guideline appears in...

Credit: KIT NCER The Korea Institute of Toxicology (KIT·Chief Dr. Song, Chang-woo) National Center for Efficacy Evaluation of Respiratory Disease Product (NCER·Chief Dr. Lee, Kyu-hong)...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2019 -- Whether you rock sideburns or baby-smooth legs, all shavers share one concern -- the threat...

A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology Assessment projects that the opioid overdose epidemic in the U.S. is likely...

Credit: Karl-Olof Bergman For pollinating butterflies, it is more important to be close to forests than to agricultural fields, according to a study of 32,000...

AGA's highest honor is presented to John I. Allen, M.D., M.B.A., A.G.A.F. Bethesda, MD (Feb. 1, 2019) -- The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) has announced...

Directed evolution of a designer enzyme with an unnatural catalytic amino acid The impressively high conversion rates of natural enzymes partly result from increasing the...

Researchers have discovered a new switch that plants use to control their responses to iron deficiencyCredit: HHU / Tzvetina Brumbarova Iron is an essential nutrient...

Researchers from the University of Malaga (UMA) evidence that levels of this vitamin in the body decrease in those months when sun impact is higherCredit:...

ADP-ribosylation, a process driven by PARP enzymes, helps some cancers grow and is suspected to be a factor in other common diseases A new method...

Developing personalised targets for treatment of decompensated cirrhosis and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) Barcelona, Spain, 1 February 2019 - An EU Horizon 2020-financed project investigating...