Credit: UVA Health System Providing simplified health information designed for parents with low health literacy helps all families in childhood obesity treatment programs regardless of...
Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore Many lives may someday depend on the work of researchers like Tony Kim. He's fighting atherosclerosis, the foremost cause...
Credit: Surfaceskins Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections - a textile that disinfects itself. And independent tests show...
Credit: Seth Dixon / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital A comprehensive study of adolescent and young adult cancer patients found just 43.8 percent of those...
New Haven, Conn.-- More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast cancer, Yale scientists have pinpointed...
Credit: Maria Grazia Vizioli and Zhixun Dou, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA -- Stress - defined broadly - can have a profoundly...
Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the formation of tumour-associated blood vessels,...
CHAPEL HILL -- A retrospective review of several thousand melanoma cases in North Carolina found that Medicaid patients were more likely to experience surgical treatment...
CHAPEL HILL - A blood test for the human papillomavirus, or HPV, may help researchers forecast whether patients with throat cancer linked to the sexually...
Scientists have had positive results from a laboratory-based study using a well-known alcohol aversion drug to try to combat chemotherapy resistance in the most common...
Bottom Line: A health care professional's recommendation was the most important factor driving decisions by women at high risk for breast cancer on whether to...
A new review article supported by a grant offered by Humane Society International has been published in the journal Plos Pathology. The article was written...
Credit: Mariel Vazquez/UC Davis If you've ever tried to untangle a pair of earbuds, you'll understand how loops and cords can get twisted up. DNA...
WASHINGTON -- Just three years ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to optical scientists for breaking Abbe's diffraction limit to enable super-resolution microscopy. Today,...
Credit: Courtesy Dr Brett Ferguson A new Australian study of peptide hormones critical for plant development could result in wide-ranging benefits for agriculture, tissue culture,...
