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WASHINGTON, DC (January 10, 2017)--About 25 percent of children and more than 41 percent of adults in the United States reported consuming foods and beverages...

1. Breast cancer screening associated with substantial overdiagnosis in Danish study Screening was not associated with a reduction in advanced tumors Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10...

In this issue, the National Commission on Prevention Priorities publishes a much anticipated update to its 2006 ranking of clinical preventive services. The report uses...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men receiving treatment for the disease...

Credit: Monash University A landmark study, led by Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute with the involvement of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, has revealed the...

Credit: Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY - Research has shown that internet addicts do not always feel guilty about their usage, and in many cases, they...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 9, 2017) - Cell powerhouses are typically long and lean, but with brain injury such as stroke or trauma,...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - When anthropologists of the future find our fossilized teeth, what will they be able to conclude about our lives? Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg has...

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in the brain, which could shed...

Credit: Brent Adrian, Senior Research Associate, Midwestern University The human appendix, a narrow pouch that projects off the cecum in the digestive system, has a...

Credit: Jakub Ostrowski Looking to the stars for inspiration, astrophysicist Lars Bildsten, director of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, favors astrophysical problem..

Credit: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center MIAMI, January 9, 2017 - Sometimes proteins do a lot more than we expect. Dab2, for example, has long been...

(Oregon State University) Researchers today reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a strong correlation between toxic levels of domoic acid in shellfish...

Credit: NOAA Hazardous levels of domoic acid, a natural toxin that accumulates in shellfish, have been linked to warmer ocean conditions in waters off Oregon...

The fluid and loose brushwork used by J.W.M. Turner and other innovative 19th century artists to capture the momentary effects of light was technically made...