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Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that immunoglobulin M, secreted by the...

Credit: (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University more than $12 million to test a promising drug treatment against...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults...

Invasive ascidians -- sac-like marine invertebrate filter feeders -- are nuisance organisms that present a global threat. They contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and...

Credit: (SMU) A scientist's dream of 3-D projections like those he saw years ago in a Star Wars movie has led to new technology for...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - There are at least 250,000 species of flowering plants on earth and though their flowers can look radically different,...

Credit: Rasgon Lab, Penn State A grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a Penn State-led team of entomologists to develop and disseminate a...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine BETHESDA, Md. - The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Arthur L. Beaudet, MD, Henry and Emma Mayer...

URBANA, Ill. - As the Missouri River flows across the Great Plains to where it meets the Mississippi River at St. Louis, it accumulates such...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that primary care professionals individualize the decision to offer or refer adults without obesity who do not...

Credit: ECDC/European Centre for Disease prevention and Control The incidence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been steadily increasing across the countries of the...

Credit: University of Plymouth People with long term conditions, multiple long term conditions and those at the end of life could see their care better...

PHILADELPHIA -- At least 28 million prescriptions for blood thinners are filled by pharmacists yearly for the irregular heartbeat of atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis,...

Doctors often prescribe preventative drugs to women who are to receive spinal blocks while giving birth via a Caesarean section. This is done to ensure...

Credit: Eskenazi Health INDIANAPOLIS - A visit by a home health worker, such as a nurse or physical therapist, within a week of an older...