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...
Credit: University of Leeds A collaboration between UK, Canadian and Chinese scientists has helped to reduce the over-prescription of unneeded antibiotics to children in rural...
Credit: Alex Thornton It is one of the most spectacular sights in nature – the magnificent aerial ballet of 'murmurations' taking place as a flock...
IMAGE: Jennifer Layden, M.D, Ph.D., from the Loyola University Health System conducts ongoing hepatitis C virus research in Ghana. Credit: Loyola University Health System West...
Credit: Kwon lab Generating mature and viable heart muscle cells from human or other animal stem cells has proven difficult for biologists. Now, Johns Hopkins...
Credit: Indiana University Indiana University School of Medicine has been awarded a one-year, $7.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to establish...
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Adolescent girls receiving a wide range of medical care in the Emergency Department (ED) are receptive to receiving...
The immune system exercises constant vigilance to protect the body from external threats–including what we eat and drink. A careful balancing act plays out as...
Credit: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers have discovered a gene region that raises the risk a child will have a middle ear infection, known...
Credit: Ines Violante Scientists have uncovered a method for improving short-term working memory, by stimulating the brain with electricity to synchronise brain waves. Researchers at...
New Rochelle, NY, November 19, 2015–The sugar obtained after enzymatic hydrolysis of empty fruit bunches (EFBs increased from 17% to 24% when supercritical carbon dioxide...
