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The face of American forests is changing, thanks to climate change-induced shifts in rainfall and temperature that are causing shifts in the abundance of numerous...

(PHILADELPHIA) - Until very recently, Parkinson's had been thought a disease that starts in the brain, destroying motion centers and resulting in the tremors and...

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (March 21, 2018) - Surgeons of The Vision Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles completed a revolutionary gene...

A new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned, has been developed by...

Credit: Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital A radiologist's ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies dire..

Credit: Provided by Baycrest Health Sciences Patients who survive a brief cardiac arrest and who appear neurologically intact should nonetheless receive a detailed neuropsychological assessment...

Many patients are discharged from the hospital with pending tests. For example, a patient may be awaiting biopsy results for a mass that may turn...

Older adults often complain about forgetting, but Penn State psychologists suggest that another problem may be misremembering. In a study, the researchers found that as...

Credit: Melody Kroll, MU Division of Biological Sciences A team of University of Missouri neuroscientists are inching closer to developing the tools needed to decipher...

In the largest study of its kind, genetic changes causing neurodevelopmental disorders have been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators...

Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum/Swiss Nanoscience Institute An international team of researchers has discovered a new anti-cancer protein. The protein, called LHPP, prevents the...

Credit: I. Crevecoeur Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the genomes of five Neandertals that lived between...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH (March 21, 2018) ... The City of Pittsburgh enjoyed three "renaissance" periods in the 20th century that transformed...

It's a paradox of Alzheimer's disease: Plaques of the sticky protein amyloid beta are the most characteristic sign in the brain of the deadly neurodegenerative...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - While Americans debate the rising cost of health care, a new study of 30 countries over 27 years found that medical expansion...