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Credit: Image credit: Tannis Thorlakson When grocery stores tout sustainable products, consumers may take their claims at face value. Yet few studies have analyzed whether...

AMHERST, Mass. – A new analysis of maternal mortality worldwide conducted by the United Nations inter-agency group on maternal mortality estimation, with lead statistician Leontine...

IMAGE: In a small clinical trial, the drug topiramate reduced the amount marijuana users smoked (solid line) compared to placebo (dotted line). Both groups received...

Credit: Courtesy of Center for BrainHealth Many who have a chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI) report struggling to solve problems, understand complex information and maintain...

Credit: MPI f. Heart and Lung Research To date, the molecular basis of pulmonary fibrosis has been poorly understood. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute...

Lucas S Kumosa and Jens Schouenborg Credits: Tove Smeds Researchers already know that gelatin-covered electrode implants cause less damage to brain tissue than electrodes with...

Credit: Photo: Michael Frietsch "By increasing BMP4, we can increase the metabolic rate, but we only see this in initially lean mice. Overweight mice proved...

BOSTON — NEJM Group announces the launch of NEJM Resident 360, a website and discussion platform that supports medical residents with the essential information they...

Credit: Waseda University As represented by conventional radiograph, radiological images provide only black and white figures in 2D space. The situation is basically the same...

Credit: Image courtesy of the MIPT press office. Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the...

Credit: (C) 2016, The Health in Aging Foundation The ability to perform the simple activities of daily living–dressing, bathing, toileting, preparing simple meals, and doing...

A team led by Oxford University has identified genes that make certain children more susceptible to invasive bacterial infections by performing a large genome-wide association...

Credit: Boston Medical Center Colleen T. Labelle, MSN, RN-BC, CARN, director of Boston Medical Center's Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) program, has been awarded the 2017...

Credit: WSU Washington State University researchers have discovered a genetic variation that predicts how well people perform certain mental tasks when they are sleep deprived....

Credit: Keeha Levitan The delicately mannered dance between discerning eggs and vying sperm is more complicated than scientists once believed, and it may hold secrets...