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Credit: Neurogeriatrics Research Group, Kiel University Balance problems when standing and walking are ubiquitous in the older population, and can lead to a significant burden...

Credit: SFU A new study by Simon Fraser University biologists Dan Greenberg and Arne Mooers offers clues to why more than 30 per cent of...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Scott Jackson, Ioannis Manolaridis, Kaspar Locher Almost all living creatures have evolved mechanisms to remove toxins that have entered their cells:...

Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an alarming potential to increase the...

Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the daily recommended intake of calcium...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Narcolepsy, a serious sleep disorder in which patients often fall asleep uncontrollably, has been incurable because no effective therapeutic agents are...

Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely timed intervals. This is what...

In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to proliferate is not true for...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method which determines not only whether a chemical or substance is allergenic, but also how strong...

The feeling of constantly being on edge, always having to take care of everything, not being able to find a balance: If an expectant mother...

Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too little can lead to anemia,...

Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known as triple therapy, yet incurs...

Credit: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory AUSTIN, Texas - Scientists have known that microbes living in the ground can play a major role in...

Quitting methamphetamine use can reverse the damage the drug causes to the heart and improve heart function in abusers when combined with appropriate medical treatment,...

New research challenges established medical practice that all heart attack patients should be on beta blockers. The study -- by a research team at the...