Quitlines, hotlines that provide free cessation services for smokers, appear to be reaching minority populations that typically underutilize cessation treatments and have high smoking prevalence,...
The discovery of a novel protein that links aging and age-dependent retinal diseases could lead to potential new treatments for conditions that cause sight loss...
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by James McEntee.) JUPITER, FL - November 15, 2016 - Autism is an agonizing puzzle, a complex mixture of...
Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a small neural circuit in male fruit flies that has evolved to allow them to perform the...
The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer...
ARLINGTON, Va. - Driven by burgeoning ecotourism and military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a parasitic infection called leishmaniasis is showing up in more U.S....
New York -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that an important explanation for declining rates of global adolescent fertility is...
Ann Arbor, MI, November 15, 2016 - Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) is a serious public health concern in the U.S. Investigators from the...
Credit: Kanazawa University Special activities in the brains while mother and her child with autism spectrum disorder are gazing each other have been discovered by...
Less than half of Asian Americans who ought to be screened for type 2 diabetes actually get tested, according to a study published Nov. 15,...
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 15, 2015) - A strong association between a genetic mutation and a rare kind of heart muscle disease has been discovered by...
Credit: Centre for Addictions Research of BC at the University of Victoria Alcohol is known to be a risk factor for breast cancer and at...
1. Testing for HPV types 16 and 18 in women with high risk HPV may better inform referral to colposcopy Abstract: http://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M16-2735 URLs go live...
Credit: Alan H. Taylor Forest fire activity in California's Sierra Nevada since 1600 has been influenced more by how humans used the land than by...
Credit: Photo courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration CORVALLIS, Ore. - The first global assessment of marine kelp ecosystems shows that these critically-important habitats...
