Credit: Abbott Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, according to new data from...
Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning,...
Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that we are better copycats than...
Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often install gates at their entrances....
Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an innovative autonomous system, SYMBIOSIS, to...
Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But crops out in a field...
DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung cancer through a blood-based biopsy...
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is...
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The opening session will feature...
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your groceries help stores know what's...
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report by researchers at the California...
DES PLAINES, IL--Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to be invited. These are the...
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using shotgun DNA sequencing, Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a new method for monitoring urinary tract infections (UTIs) that surpasses traditional methods...
Credit: UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have developed a revolutionary "lung on a...
Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, USC The cell has its own paramedic team and emergency room to aid and repair damaged DNA, a new USC Dornsife study...
