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LONDON, ON – November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, highlighting the number one cause of cancer-related death in North America. While prognosis for the most...

Ontario rotavirus hospitalizations drop >70 percent after launch of infant vaccine program

Hospitalization for rotavirus infections decreased by > 70% following the introduction of a vaccine program in Ontario, Canada, according to a study published May 11,...

Mapping DROSHA’s cleavage sites

Credit: IBS Each cell of our body is the result of an orchestra of sophisticated mechanisms that control which genes are and are not expressed...

Urban hedgehogs — more at home in the city than you thought

Credit: James M. Turner A species that is 15 million years old, hedgehogs have survived all kinds of environmental changes over the years, including urbanisation....

Federal grant expands testing for new nonmedication ADHD treatment

Credit: FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University researchers are seeing promising results from "video games" they created as a potential new option...

Dining hall intervention helped college students choose healthier…

Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Philadelphia, PA, June 7, 2017 – As students transition from high school to college, they enter a critical...

Zika vaccine induces robust immune responses in three phase 1 trials

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Healthy adults mounted strong immune responses after receiving an investigational whole inactivated Zika virus vaccine, according to...

IOF President’s Award honors global osteoporosis experts and advocates

Credit: @IOF Seven leading osteoporosis experts and advocates have received the 2017 International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) President's Award in recognition of their contributions to IOF...

Born to break: Mutation causes fragile bones

IMAGE: The picture shows a cross-section of the femur of a mouse. The white and purple cells are bone marrow, the pink area is bone,...

Tiny dinosaur may have dazzled mates with rainbow ruff and a bony…

Credit: Hu, et al., 2018 Ancient dinosaurs were adorned in some amazing ways, from the horns of the triceratops to the plates and spikes of...

Organism responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning may affect fisheries

The toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense, is a photosynthetic plankton–a microscopic organism floating in the ocean, unable to swim against a current. New research by scientists...

Health care access improves with state-level medicaid expansion

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 26, 2017-A new study has shown that low-income U.S. residents living in Medicaid expansion states...

Oil-based pesticides most effective at killing contents of brown widow…

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside might have found a breakthrough in the spider-control field. In a paper published in the Journal of Economic...

Liking on Facebook good for teens’ stress, but being liked…not so much

Facebook can have positive and negative effects on teens levels of a stress hormone, say researchers at the University of Montreal and the Institut universitaire...

NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations