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One in 10 electronic dance music (EDM) party attendees have misused opioids in the past year, exceeding the national average, finds a study by the...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Child sexual abuse in the United States is costly, with an average lifetime cost of $1.1 million per death of female...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Mobile health (mHealth) apps using gamified elements, like Empower by Ayogo and Fitocracy, for improving behaviors important to self-managing chronic illness...

Credit: Craig Chandler | University of Nebraska-Lincoln An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has imparted a lesson...

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that wild frogs are becoming increasingly...

Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties - soft-yet-strong, tough-yet-flexible - that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An international team has managed to produce...

URBANA, Ill. - The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture has announced a grant for $1 million to support research led by a University...

With the promise of inexpensive procedures luring patients to travel abroad for plastic surgery, medical tourism has become an expanding, multi-billion-dollar industry. But while the...

Children who live in more walkable neighbourhoods have a smaller waist measurement and a lower BMI (body mass index). Those are the findings of a...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- More than half of U.S. physicians say they experience burnout in their work. Today, Mayo Clinic and other leading medical centers have...

(New York - March 29, 2018) - Physician burnout continues to be a pervasive issue, with more than 50 percent of doctors reporting problems such...

If you keep a close eye on an MRI scan of the brain, you'll see a wave pass through the entire brain like a heartbeat...

Credit: Photo: D. Rusiecka, GEOMAR. Lead (PB) is one of few elements for which the impact of human activity on the marine environment is clearly...

Credit: Roger James Kuhns and George H. Shaw Mystic, CT - Dr. Roger James Kuhns and Dr. George H. Shaw recently published a book through...

Credit: Nikolay Poyarkov A team of scientists from MSU and their foreign colleagues discovered a previously unknown species and genus of batrachians Siamophryne troglodytes. These...