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Credit: Texas A&M University Health Science Center Workplace injuries don't just come from lifting heavy things or falling off a ladder. People with desk jobs...

Credit: Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin How do baboons succeed in coordinating the movements of their group? Biologists at the University of Konstanz study these organisms in the...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Being transparent about the cost of cancer treatments with patients has been increasingly recommended to help minimize financial harm and...

Credit: Karen Kloth All living organisms harbour complex chemical networks inside their cells. The sum of all these chemical reactions is the driving force of...

As Earth warms due to human-caused climate change, extreme climatic events like heat waves, droughts, and spikes in ocean temperatures have increased and are projected...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--In humans, developing metabolic disease, particularly type 2 diabetes, is correlated with having bacteria that penetrate the mucus lining of the...

Credit: Rita Valente, IGC. Bacteria "conversation" may be an early trigger for plant pathogens virulence, show scientists from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC, Portugal). In...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, approximately 1.5 million Americans suffer osteoporosis-related fractures each ye..

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- About half of patients diagnosed with high blood pressure will need their medication adjusted within the first year to address side effects...

Credit: Miguel Prudêncio lab, iMM Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal (30 May 2017)--The Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in the Netherlands, the Instituto de Medicina Molecular Lisboa...

For some time now, patients in Sweden's emergency clinics complaining of chest pain have been evaluated using the "high-sensitivity troponin T" assay. In a large-scale...

DES PLAINES, IL--Transgender patients feel it is more important for health care providers to know their gender identity (GI) than their sexual orientation (SI), but...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that immune cells infected with a latent form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are able to proliferate,...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2017--Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) sensors are now so accurate that two CGM devices, including...

Childhood trauma is the experience of a highly distressing event or situation during one's youth, which is beyond a minor's capacity for coping or control....