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Researchers explore how maternal sleep habits, including lengthy periods of sleep without waking more than once in the night, may be associated with fetal health...

Credit: Baptist Memorial Hospital A new paper published in Pediatrics links successful implementation of Baby-Friendly™ practices in the southern U.S. with increases in breastfeeding rates...

Credit: Surinder Chopra Research Group/Penn State In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn,...

Entomologists Meiners, Griswold and Messinger-Carril publish in 'PLOS One'Credit: Therese Lamperty LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Declines in native bee populations are widely reported, but can...

Penn bioethicist proposes a working group to study and monitor poorly regulated products, predicted to top $3 billion by 2020 PHILADELPHIA -The marketing of direct-to-consumer...

New data from Emory, UAlbany, and CDC show nine states make up more than 50 percent of Hepatitis C infectionsCredit: HepVu.org ATLANTA, Jan. 16, 2019...

January 17, 2019 - An automated text messaging system increases patient engagement with home-based exercise and promotes faster recovery after total knee or hip replacement...

In 'game-changing' finding, bone mass rose 800 percent after signals were blocked in brains of miceCredit: Holly Ingraham/UC San Francisco UCLA and UC San Francisco...

Rate depends on age, pollutant and lung diseaseCredit: ATS Jan. 17, 2019--As levels of ozone and fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) rise, more patients end up...

NEW HYDE PARK, NY - Using ultraviolet (UV) disinfection technology to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections eliminated up to 97.7 percent of pathogens in...

Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Jan. 17, 2019) -- A new approach to pancreatic cancer screening may help doctors detect...

Credit: UW School of Public Health Seattle residents who live in waterfront neighborhoods tend to have healthier diets compared to those who live along Interstate-5...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Apple orchards surrounded by agricultural lands are visited by a less diverse collection of bee species than orchards surrounded by natural habitats,...

Only few study participants received approval-compliant treatment; extent of added benefit therefore non-quantifiable Squamous cell carcinoma is one of the most common cancers of the...

What happens when a strong advocate for one side of a controversial issue in science publicly announces that he or she now believes the opposite?...