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TORONTO, May 2, 2018 -Pediatricians, research scientists, health care providers and policy makers from around the world will convene in Toronto on May 5-8, 2018...

We are our own worst enemy when it comes to developing obesity. The body is naturally geared to assimilate energy from the food we eat...

Credit: Seoul National University and Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea RESTON, VA -- A novel PET tracer developed by Korean researchers can visualize joint...

A study by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) points to a novel potential approach against Alzheimer's disease. In studies in mice,...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Zach Smith has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder marked by progressive muscle degeneration. His lack of...

The day of the week on which a patient has a lung cancer operation has no significance for their survival. This has been demonstrated by...

Credit: Ryan Sanford While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has largely dropped from news headlines since the 1990s, at the end of 2016 there were...

Big data is at the heart of the 4th industrial revolution -- and a new Open Access, rigorously peer-reviewed journal is helping to fuel this....

In studies with monkeys, Johns Hopkins researchers report that they have uncovered significant new details about how the cerebellum -- the "learning machine" of the...

Credit: Université de Montréal The amount of mercury extracted from the sea by industrial fishing has grown steadily since the 1950s, potentially increasing mercury exposure...

Credit: (Image provided) Researchers at Purdue University have created a device that can quickly and inexpensively determine whether new pharmaceutical formulations have trace crystallinity that...

Credit: Credit: Huaxiu Chen BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher...

TORONTO, MAY 3, 2018 - A specific kind of brain stimulation is effective in reducing suicidal thinking in a significant portion of people with hard-to-treat...

Credit: RUB, Marquard What happens in a crocodile's brain when it hears complex sounds? An international research team headed by Dr Felix Ströckens from the...

Researchers from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences have characterised a new protein that is...