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Fresh insights into a potentially life-threatening lung disease that causes persistent coughing could pave the way for new therapies. Scientists have discovered how the disease...

Dyslexic children learning both a language that is pronounced as written -like Spanish- and a second language in which the same letter can have several...

The first peer-reviewed study into autism and homelessness has been published, in the journal Autism. The researchers* found evidence suggesting that autistic adults are over-represented...

Patients in intensive care units are at significant risk of potentially life-threatening secondary infections, including from antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA and C. difficile. Now,...

Credit: Joakim Stromberg The various treatments for "Viking disease" are coming under closer scrutiny. Research shows that crooked fingers can be straightened just as well...

Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech One hundred. That's the number researchers argue is a pragmatic quantity of nuclear weapons for any nation to have. To put...

Credit: R.Sablotny; UZH Research goes airborne: The UZH Space Hub is holding its first research flight campaign from 11 to 13 June. An airbus performing...

Credit: Charité/Nikolay Berlin-based researchers have produced snapshots of the 'protein factories' of the cell. Their findings could set us on the path towards a new...

Heidelberg | New York, 13 June 2018 Parents who spend a lot of time on their phones or watching television during family activities such as...

In which quantities do we ingest undesired substances with our food on average? Are certain foods more strongly contaminated than others, and what health effects...

Threatened by the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 2016, Florida residents felt more susceptible than others in the United States to getting the virus, were more...

From vine to wine, grapes undergo a remarkable transformation. But sometimes this makeover results in vino that doesn't taste quite right. In a study appearing...

In a small study of ambulatory surgical centers across the country, Johns Hopkins quality care researchers found that publicly listing the prices of common operations,...

New York, NY, June 13, 2018: A new report from Medscape finds that more than 1 in 10 female physicians and 16% of female residents...

DALLAS, June 13, 2018 -- The thought of losing up to $14 a week along with personalized goal setting may have motivated ischemic heart disease...