Credit: Luke Henderson/Rice University Rice University nanoscientists have demonstrated a method for loading iron inside nanoparticles to create MRI contrast agents that outperform gadolinium chela..
Rio de Janeiro -- Animal research has failed to benefit human health, wasted limited public research funds, misled clinicians, and harmed countless animals unnecessarily, finds...
Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Like mammals, parasitic worms have an endocannabinoid system that may help the worm and the hosts it...
Credit: Copyright: © 2018 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2018.73 In a recent review article published in the journal Disaster Medicine and...
ATLANTA - The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the Association for Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP) welcome members of the press to write about research...
Community outreach and educational support for navigating health insurance options available in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace are crucial for helping people choose the...
Nasal polyps - soft, grape-like outgrowths that can appear in the nasal passages and sinuses - can be chronic and relentless. Although noncancerous, these outgrowths...
Credit: Michael Fanton If you're about to run headfirst into something, your reflex might be to tense your neck and stabilize your noggin. But according...
BURNABY, BC - (August 22, 2018) -- D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems and software, today published a milestone study demonstrating a...
Falls are the leading cause of illness and death among Americans aged 65 and older. In 2014, some 2.8 million older adults visited the emergency...
Credit: photo/©: Peter Pulkowski, Mainz University Medical Center Air pollution, and fine dust in particular, is responsible for more than four million deaths each year....
Use of e-cigarettes every day can nearly double the odds of a heart attack, according to a new analysis of a survey of nearly 70,000...
Bottom Line: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 2014 moved to limit prescribing of pain medications containing the opioid hydrocodone from schedule III (a class...
Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) - Genetic testing is a powerful diagnostic tool that is increasingly being used for...
Credit: Courtesy David Corey, Harvard Medical School Scientists at Harvard Medical School say they have ended a 40-year-quest for the elusive identity of the sensor...
