1. Decades of treatment advances have not improved long-term health outcomes for childhood cancer survivors Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-0742 URLs go live when the embargo..
Long-term survivors of childhood cancer live longer thanks to improvements to cancer treatments, but a new study looking at three decades of therapy suggests patients...
Credit: John Soares BOSTON - (October 24, 2016) - Our gut microbiomes--the bacteria that live in our digestive tract--play major roles in our health. Scientists...
Credit: John P. O'Bryan, et al. Published in Nature Chemical Biology. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a new way to...
University of Iowa researchers have shown that most of the extra vials of blood drawn for lab tests never get used and are instead discarded....
Chicks that are competing with siblings or whose parents are likely to die or switch partners tend to be less honest when begging for food,...
Credit: Mike Riddell DURHAM, N.C. -- Hunting has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in forests near rural villages in the Central African nation of Gabon, a...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A global ban on genetically modified crops would raise food prices and add the equivalent of nearly a billion tons of...
Credit: Margaret Siple/University of Washington > With seafood, what you see is not always what you get. It's no secret that mislabeling is rampant around...
Credit: IDIBELL A new study by researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has found a cause of multiple resistance in cancer chemotherapy. The...
Although many cancer patients respond favorably to immunotherapies such as nivolumab and pembrolizumab, most patients do not. Blame for treatment failures is usually attributed to...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive, fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells controlling voluntary muscles. No...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to...
Unless we're weeding the garden or tripping over one sticking out of the ground, for most of us the root systems of plants are out...
CINCINNATI -- Using a person's spoken or written words, new computer tools can identify with great accuracy whether that person is suicidal, mentally ill but...
