Lifestyle intervention delivered in churches by community-based health workers led to a significant reduction in blood pressure among African Americans compared to health education alone,...
Sustainable intensification is an approach that aims to increase crop yields on existing agricultural land while minimizing the negative environmental pressures and impacts of agricultural...
Credit: American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, October 9, 2018 - Each year 15 million infants are born preterm and face high risks of short-...
Consuming too much vitamin A may decrease bone thickness, leading to weak and fracture prone bones, according to a study published in the Journal of...
Nearly 15 percent of all chewing gum varieties sold promise to provide health-enhancing supplements to users, so Penn State researchers studied whether two vitamin-supplemented products...
Credit: @European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano-Munich, 10 October 2018 - Sarcoma patients show great openness to the use of complementary alternative medicines (CAMs) for...
EDMONTON (October 9, 2018) - The Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet) awarded $90,000 in grants to three Alberta-based startup companies: 48Hour Discovery Inc., GlyCa BioSciences Inc....
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), an SABCS co-sponsor, will honor three renowned researchers for their...
Credit: Harry Campbell/Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Strategic investment in 15 promising technologies could help make the world better prepared and equipped to prevent...
Credit: Peter Tsai New research on autism has found, in a mouse model, that drug treatment at a young age can reverse social impairments. But...
Researchers say they have discovered a gene mutation that slows the metabolism of sugar in the gut, giving people who have the mutation a distinct...
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A high-tech startup founded by an Indiana University researcher-entrepreneur has been awarded a federal grant to develop technology that...
Amphibian populations around the world are declining due to a skin disease caused by fungus. However, an amphibian commonly found in Louisiana, the three-toed amphiuma,...
Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications Children around the world are suffering from unnoticed infections that are stunting their growth and mental development,...
Credit: University of Houston University of Houston biologist Michihisa Umetani, having discovered that a certain protein partnership acts to rapidly signal molecules inside blood vessels...
