A study examining the impact of antibiotics prescribed for nearly 1500 adult patients admitted to The Johns Hopkins Hospital found that adverse side effects occurred...
Credit: UBC Okanagan Just one 30-minute bout of exercise makes women feel stronger and thinner, according to a new UBC study. And the positive effect...
Credit: Yamamoto et al., Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2017), doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfx083 Medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 (MCKD1) is a rare genetic kidney disease. Despite this,...
Credit: Portrait: Cecilia Hedström A method to more accurately test anti-cancer drugs has now been developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. The method...
Credit: OIST While the mechanism of transmission of information at the contact point between two neurons -- the famous synapse -- has been thoroughly studied,...
In autoimmune diseases, the immune system wrongly identifies its "enemy", and produces antibodies that attack the patient's own cells. One of these diseases, the anti-phospholipid...
To understand how human activities are affecting the planet, scientists often study the health of animals in the wild. Now a new study, appearing in...
Five years ago, a highly publicized meta-analysis of more than 200 studies concluded that organic food was no more nutritious than conventionally grown food. Since...
As tech billionaires like Elon Musk and scientists like Stephen Hawking, warn of an impending artificial intelligence arms race, a collection of groundbreaking new research...
Researchers at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new surgical tool that uses low-frequency intravascular...
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, 14th of June, 2017, Baltimore, MD, Insilico Medicine, Mail.Ru Group in collaboration with the center for electronic health of the Ministry...
Young adults who had chemotherapy as a child have decreased cognitive flexibility and a weaker short-term memory. Their ability to concentrate and long-term memory are...
Credit: University of Plymouth Imagine walking along a South Devon beach on a lovely day. The waves are lapping on the shore, rabbits are scurrying...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 14, 2017) -- "Oh, my aching back!" It's not an uncommon complaint heard from both men and women as they age and...
Male birds tend to be better singers than females--but does the basis for this difference lie in the brain or in the syrinx, the bird...
