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CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 14, 2017) -- "Oh, my aching back!" It's not an uncommon complaint heard from both men and women as they age and...

Male birds tend to be better singers than females--but does the basis for this difference lie in the brain or in the syrinx, the bird...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - The techniques used to clean and sterilize flexible ureteroscopes leave behind contamination including debris, residue, and bacteria, according to...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - Thirty-three of 89 (37 percent) heater-cooler units assessed between July 2015 and December 2016 tested positive for Mycobacterium chimaera...

Portland, Ore., June 14, 2017 - While nearly 400,000 residents of long-term care facilities die as a result of healthcare associated infections (HAIs), these facilities...

Credit: NASA In each life a little rain must fall, but in space, one of the biggest risks to astronauts' health is radiation "rain". NASA's...

Credit: Nisma Mujahid and David E. Fisher Researchers in Boston have developed a class of small molecules that successfully penetrates and darkens human skin samples...

Using the OncoArray genotyping platform developed by multiple cancer consortia, a recent large aggregated genomewide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for lung cancer, the...

Credit: Nisma Mujahid and David E. Fisher, MD, PhD, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH..

Researchers have identified the mechanism which causes a build-up of fat in the liver in a disease affecting one in five in the UK --...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A healthy gut requires a molecule called gp96 to train the immune system to tolerate food and normal microbes,...

ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that the ESMO 2019 Annual Congress will take place in partnership with the European...

Credit: Department of Biodefense Research, Medical Research Institute,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) researchers identify human stem cell descendants destined to become monocytes, u..

University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers have received a $4.25 million federal grant to help Alaska Native communities use the most effective ways of preventing suicides....

Credit: National University of Singapore A team of researchers led by Dr Dennis Kappei, a Special Fellow from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI...