Credit: UConn Health Contrary to data published by the Centers for Disease Control, ventilator-associated pneumonia rates in hospital intensive care units have not declined significantly...
The transition from being sea creatures to living on land, even if it happened over 300 million years ago, seems to have left its traces...
People fleeing across the Mediterranean by boat face many dangers. In a paper now published in the renowned medical journal Lancet, researchers working at the...
Traumatic stress affects the brains of adolescent boys and girls differently, according to a new brain-scanning study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. Among...
In a study published online by JAMA, Mark L. Metersky, M.D., of the UConn School of Medicine, Farmington, and colleagues analyzed trends in Medicare Patient...
Credit: University of Notre Dame/Matt Cashore Pancreatic cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, is projected to be the second by the year 2030,...
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 11, 2016) - The best way to help young people with neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder...
Establishing how the brain produces consciousness is one of the most challenging research questions in the field of neuroscience. In an effort to get closer...
Credit: David Lance The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) lists more than 100 invasive species already posing threats in Switzerland, including the Asian...
Credit: Danny Kessler / Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and the University of...
Credit: Escalante et al., 2016 Researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered that mice infected with the common gut parasite Tritrichomonas muris are at...
Credit: Credit: Douglas Levere. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What if someone invented a smartphone app that could help detect autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children as...
Credit: UEx Researchers from the Meat and Meat Products Research Institute (Instituto de Investigación de Carne y Productos Cárnicos - IProCar) of the University of...
Credit: Kerstin Seitz/Vetmeduni Vienna The honey bee Apis mellifera plays an important role for the pollination of fruit and vegetable plants, besides its significance for...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 11, 2016 -- Most of us know pectin as a key ingredient for making delicious jellies and jams, not as a component...
