COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Mobile health (mHealth) apps using gamified elements, like Empower by Ayogo and Fitocracy, for improving behaviors important to self-managing chronic illness...
Credit: Craig Chandler | University of Nebraska-Lincoln An analysis of more than 2,000 college classes in science, technology, engineering and math has imparted a lesson...
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) What slows or stops a disease epidemic if the pathogen is still present? It appears that wild frogs are becoming increasingly...
Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties - soft-yet-strong, tough-yet-flexible - that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An international team has managed to produce...
URBANA, Ill. - The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture has announced a grant for $1 million to support research led by a University...
With the promise of inexpensive procedures luring patients to travel abroad for plastic surgery, medical tourism has become an expanding, multi-billion-dollar industry. But while the...
Children who live in more walkable neighbourhoods have a smaller waist measurement and a lower BMI (body mass index). Those are the findings of a...
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- More than half of U.S. physicians say they experience burnout in their work. Today, Mayo Clinic and other leading medical centers have...
(New York - March 29, 2018) - Physician burnout continues to be a pervasive issue, with more than 50 percent of doctors reporting problems such...
If you keep a close eye on an MRI scan of the brain, you'll see a wave pass through the entire brain like a heartbeat...
Credit: Photo: D. Rusiecka, GEOMAR. Lead (PB) is one of few elements for which the impact of human activity on the marine environment is clearly...
Credit: Roger James Kuhns and George H. Shaw Mystic, CT - Dr. Roger James Kuhns and Dr. George H. Shaw recently published a book through...
Credit: Nikolay Poyarkov A team of scientists from MSU and their foreign colleagues discovered a previously unknown species and genus of batrachians Siamophryne troglodytes. These...
LA JOLLA--(March 29, 2018) Salk Institute scientists, together with researchers from Switzerland's University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, discovered a protein called LHPP that...
ANN ARBOR -- When tadpoles are but tadpoles, they're voracious eaters, chomping down all of the plant matter in their paths. Now, a University of...
