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Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – With opioid overdoses now a leading cause of nonintentional death in the United States, data show most...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS, Jan. 11, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein that is central to the immune...

Credit: University of Cincinnati Deep within aquatic ecosystems all over the world, certain toad species have managed to survive warmer and drier climate change. But...

Credit: Lynn Henry Portland, Oregon – A drug typically used to treat depression and anxiety can significantly reduce joint pain in postmenopausal women being treated...

NAPA, Calif. — Only 1 in 5 U.S. pancreatic cancer patients receive a widely available, inexpensive blood test at diagnosis that can help predict whether...

Credit: University of Seville Researchers from the University of Seville at the Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (Centro Andaluz de Biología Molecular...

Credit: The Ottawa Hospital Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa are tackling the often-overlooked issue of delayed emergency surgeries. Emergency surgeries...

Credit: Bruno et al. Haptic interfaces have been readily adopted because of their intuitive ease of use and convenience. Obvious examples are the screens for...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 15, 2017–A new study has shown that use of intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in patients...

Credit: Courtesy of Philippe Hujoel Individuals with a slender lower face are about 25 percent more likely to be left-handed. This unexpected finding (abstract) was...

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – People rate food as tasting better, and eat more of it, when they eat with company than when they...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – November 2, 2016 – Researchers have identified the first two core genes that regulate the amount of deep sleep and...

Credit: Edith Martinez In a bid to improve mental health screening of Latino children from immigrant families, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report they have...

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have developed a blood test that spots tumor-specific DNA and protein biomarkers for early-stage pancreatic cancer. The combined “liquid biopsy”...

Credit: Courtesy Tierra Smiley Evans/UC Davis Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have detected a herpes virus in wild mountain gorillas that is very...