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Credit: Image courtesy Ian Wood, Indiana University It's often wryly observed that birth rates peak in September, with many studies citing seasonal changes in human...

Credit: Photo by Nsa Dada One of the most common insecticides used in the battle against the Aedes aegypti mosquito has no measurable impact when...

Credit: University of Utah Mindfulness training and hypnotic suggestion significantly reduced acute pain experienced by hospital patients, according to a new study published in the...

Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. – Since 1990, the divorce rate among adults 50 years and older has doubled. This trend, along with longer...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 3, 2017 — The new and rapidly evolving esports industry, while currently enjoying minimal regulatory...

New Rochelle, NY, November 18, 2015–Examining women's perceptions of the relationship between Christian and Anastasia in the popular movie Fifty Shades of Grey is a...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A meta-analysis of dozens of studies of traditional Chinese medicine and other nonpharmacological interventions meant to improve patients' quality of life affirms...

Credit: The University of Manchester The human whipworm, which infects 500 million people and can damage physical and mental growth, is killed at egg and...

Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is not only true for wild...

Shelley Lyford, president and CEO of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Four national medical societies and nine leading health systems announced today they...

Credit: Daniel Martins-de-Souza, University of Campinas Schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the world population and is the main cause of psychiatric incapacitation. Despite its high...

Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to Australia. Long believed to be...

Credit: Cedars-Sinai Los Angeles — June 26, 2017 — A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigator and his team have developed a new risk assessment tool that...

Mouse models of Zika infection in adults confirm that the virus can infect specific regions of the eye, resulting in uveitis and conjunctivitis–a symptom observed...

Credit: Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization Researchers in Japan have created a database of metabolites from blood samples collected from over 5,000 Japanese volunteers, making it...