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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a global and growing problem in health care. To be able to prevent further development of resistance developing, it is important to...

Credit: Imperial College London Making tiny changes to existing diabetes treatments can alter how they interact with cells, and potentially make the medicines more effective....

Updated expectations are vital for making decisions Your midbrain encodes the expectation error and relays it to the frontal lobe to revise Dopamine neurons are...

An analysis of electronic medical records indicates that patients who previously had a false-positive breast or prostate cancer screening test are more likely to obtain...

A new method has been developed to make drugs 'smarter' using nanotechnology so they will be more effective at reaching their target. Scientists from the...

Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the link between consumption of fish...

Credit: (Picture: F. Rahman/ TUM) Trees cool their environment and "heat islands" like Munich benefit from it. However, the degree of cooling depends greatly on...

The greasy food being served at hockey rinks isn't really what young hockey players want, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The...

Madrid, Spain: Contact precautions, used in addition to the standard precautions, the basic level of infection control applied to all patients, did not limit or...

Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans, new research suggests. Carried out...

Madrid, Spain: Researchers identified novel chromosomal mutations and described their role in the development of resistance of Escherichia coli (E. coli) to broad-spectrum antibiotic fosfomycin,...

Barcelona, Spain: Radiotherapy given in high doses over a shorter period of time is safe and effective for prostate cancer patients, according to research presented...

Barcelona, Spain: Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment - called accelerated partial breast irradiation - is at least as...

Madrid, Spain: Researchers discovered an easily measured gene linked to a high fatality rate, which could be used as a novel prognostic biomarker in patients...

Madrid, Spain: Cellulitis treated with a six-day course of intravenous antibiotic flucloxacillin resulted in greater rates of relapse at 90 days post treatment despite having...