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This news release is available in French. Consumers of self-help books are more sensitive to stress and show higher depressive symptomatology, according to a study...

Credit: Madelyne Greene & Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) – April 4, 2017 – Nurses with research doctorates have led important work that has proven vital in...

Credit: From "Undiscovered bat hosts of filoviruses, " by Han et al., originally published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases…. Athens, Ga. – An international team...

Credit: Provided What started as a final year engineering class project at McMaster University is now an internationally recognized improved solution for the early detection...

IMAGE: Stuart Johnson, M.D., of Loyola University Health System has participated in more than 350 C. diff research studies. Credit: Loyola University Health System Exposure...

IMAGE: James Crowe, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, watches graduate student Andrew Flyak plate antibody-producing B cells from people in Africa who have...

Credit: NCATS Researchers at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) recently identified compounds that potentially can be used to inhibit Zika virus replication...

A groundbreaking study released today shows that a single injectable dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) along with bivalent oral polio vaccine could protect up...

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Two differing blood clot prevention medications are just as safe and effective for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, a...

Credit: Osaka University In March 2017, the Cardiovascular Surgery Group at Osaka University successfully implanted a left ventricular assist device with an internal power cable...

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Prostate tumors tend to be what scientists call "indolent" – so slow-growing and self-contained that many affected...

Credit: Jason Wood, Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A new study on the mechanics of aging and longevity finds that fruit flies inhibited from producing...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Diagnostic errors are very common in medicine and often come from failures of "clinical reasoning," some of which may...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2018–Acute chest syndrome (ACS), a potentially severe lung complication of sickle cell disease, increases...

Scientists have shown for the first time that tumour DNA shed into the bloodstream can be used to track cancers in real time as they...