Credit: Annenberg Public Policy Center. Published in Pediatrics, June 2018. Parents are more willing to let their children see PG-13 movies with intense gun violence...
Credit: Per Melander People who snore may have extensive tissue damage in the nerves and muscles of the soft palate. This can in turn create...
Credit: Courtesy of NYU Langone Health Fewer individuals across the globe would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) under proposed changes to the most...
Skyrocketing drug prices and the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare are just two of many pressing issues caused by America's surging baby-boom population,...
Georgios Margonis, M.D., Ph.D., a surgical oncology fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Matthew Weiss, M.D., surgical director of the Johns...
Training local clinicians with regional anesthesia techniques has helped the Vietnamese medical community improve their approach to anesthesia care, results of a survey conducted by...
Credit: Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard Staff Photographer Cambridge, Mass. - May 14, 2018 - Harvard University has granted a worldwide license to Beam Therapeutics, Inc., to...
DALLAS, May 14, 2018 - Children who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution during the third trimester of their mother's pregnancy had a...
Credit: Video courtesy Ning Wang. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new technique that uses tiny elastic balls filled with fluorescent nanoparticles aims to expand the understanding...
Gout, a painful inflammatory arthritis, is not associated with an increased risk of fracture, according to a large study led by Keele University, and published...
If Canada's Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNA) is overturned by a challenge from the Province of Quebec, it will open the doors to genetic discrimination, argue...
A new Canadian guideline for impaired vision in older adults recommends against primary care screening of older adults not reporting concerns about their vision. The...
NEW YORK--Cannabis use increased among parents who smoke cigarettes, as well as among non-smoking parents, according to a latest study from researchers at Columbia University's...
Credit: Kota et. al./The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL - May 14, 2018 - Cancer is a disease often driven by mutations in genes. As...
Reports from several studies have identified a link between height and general cognitive ability, or intelligence, but the mechanisms underlying this association are not well...
