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Credit: Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) Jan. 30, 2017 – Road traffic injuries are a major cause of disability and are responsible for more than one million...

Credit: Image: Cognitive and Affective Control Laboratory / University of Colorado Boulder. University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered a brain signature that identifies fibromyalgia...

New York, NY, January 7, 2016 – To determine patient eligibility for heart transplant, the International Society for Heart Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) maintains a list...

HOUSTON — (Nov. 2, 2015) — Rice University scientists have solved a long-standing mystery about where the body stores and deploys blood-clotting factor VIII, a...

Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY – Sexual preference is influenced by males' adolescent social stress history and social status, according to a research team...

Credit: Catherine Bouchard Scientists have built a large body of knowledge about Lyme disease over the past 40 years, yet controversies remain and the number...

Credit: Sun et al., 2016 Researchers have discovered that secondary infection with the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacterium (or "superbug") often kills influenza patients beca..

Credit: The University of Gothenburg Shortness of breath is an often overlooked symptom of what may be heart failure or COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease)....

(Philadelphia, PA) – Individuals with Down syndrome who survive into adulthood face the additional challenge of early-onset dementia, in which toxic amyloid plaques build up...

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Seventy per cent of readings from home blood pressure monitors are unacceptably inaccurate, which could cause serious implications for people who rely...

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School The Asia Pacific Medical Technology Association (APACMed), the only regional trade body for the medical devices, equipment and in vitro diagnostics...

Credit: Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Ching-Ling (Ellen) Lien, PhD, an investigator at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles,...

Men and women with shorter, wider faces tend to be more sexually motivated and to have a stronger sex drive than those with faces of...

Credit: Children's National Health System Antibiotic resistance continues to grow around the world, with sometimes disastrous results. Some strains of bacteria no longer respond to...

Credit: Université de Montréal Humans may have ritualistically "killed" objects to remove their symbolic power, some 5,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new international...