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Bottom Line: Frequent cannabis use by adolescents and young adults was associated with small reductions in cognitive function that appeared to diminish with abstinence over...

Bottom Line: Early first deployment and a shorter length of time between deployments were associated with a higher risk of suicide attempt among soldiers with...

Credit: TU Wien They protect us from the onslaught of bacteria and viruses and also from cancer: T cells are an indispensable part of our...

Atherosclerotic plaque builds up gradually in the walls of the body's arteries. Ruptured plaque can trigger clots that cause life-threatening conditions such as stroke and...

The new technology has been developed jointly by teams headed by Prof Dr Georg Schmitz at the Chair for Medical Engineering at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine For years, scientists have observed that when male and female mice eat the same high-fat diet, the males gain significantly...

Interventions such as speeding enforcement and formal swimming lessons for young children could potentially save more than 250,000 lives a year if they were implemented...

Credit: Oncotarget Existing microscopy-based methods of detecting apoptosis, such as TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling), have limited quantitative capabilities due ..

Philadelphia, 2017 -- Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, FACP, has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award #1...

Centre for Mental Health Research Fellow Mr Jesse Young led a study that identified hospital records for 1307 people released from seven Queensland prisons from...

Credit: Dr. Plauto Christopher Aranha Watanabe, Bentham Science Publishers Anatomical studies of the skull, face bones and teeth are complex and it is important to...

Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Using drug repurposing, a team of researchers led by animal biologists at Nagoya University has discovered compounds that can either shorten...

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University A specially designed spectacle lens developed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was found to have slowed down...

Bumblebees living in the city have genes that differ from those of their relatives in the countryside. Although genetic differences are not major, they nevertheless...

Credit: KAIST A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types of drug-drug and drug-food interactions...