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Mothers talk to their children more in early infancy than fathers, a new study shows. Both male and female babies also respond more attentively to female voices.

(Douglas Mental Health University Institute) The Douglas Mental Health University Institute is proud to announce that its researcher and neurobiologist, Michael Meaney, C.M., Ph.D., C.Q., FRSC, is the 2014 laureate of th...

Red wine provides resveratrol, which is no substitute for exercise, according to a new study.

In obese individuals, those who underwent bariatric surgery had reduced odds of developing type 2 diabetes than those who did not have weight loss surgery.

Brittany Maynard, who moved to Oregon so she could take advantage of the Death with Dignity Act following her diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor, has passed away on Saturday after taking a lethal medication.

Newly-identified cancer cell fingerprints in the blood could one day help doctors diagnose a range of children's cancers faster and more accurately, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institu...

(Northwestern University) Aging is the most significant risk factor for developing neurodegenerative diseases, and the risk increases disproportionately with age. Now a team of scientists from Northwestern University, Pr...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Immunotherapy that can be effective against tumors in young, thin mice can be lethal to obese ones, a new study by UC Davis researchers has found.

(University of Texas at Austin) A potentially breathable, respiratory vaccine in development has been shown to provide long-term protection against the Ebola virus for non-human primates, as reported this week in Molecul...

(March of Dimes Foundation) The March of Dimes is calling for a nationwide effort to reduce US preterm births to 5.5 percent of by 2030. The goal can be achieved by optimal use of interventions and by studying countries ...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researchers have developed the first and only tool that can accurately measure cancer health literacy and quickly identify patients...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) A new study shows cellular-level changes in nerve structure and function that may contribute to the development of migraine headaches, reports the November issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surg...

(American College of Surgeons) University Health Network researchers are trying to determine why many patients who are referred for a bariatric operation do not ultimately have the procedure performed, despite being in a...

(American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists) A nasal vaccine in development by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has been shown to provide long-term protection for non-human primates against the dea...

(Uppsala University) If chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with a good or poor prognosis could be identified already at the time of diagnosis, physicians would have better possibilities to adjust their therapeutic and...

(Wiley) A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, made available online today by the scientific journal Addiction, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women...

(Royal Holloway, University of London) A pioneering piece of technology will allow users to experience the world through the eyes of a person with Young-Onset Parkinson's disease- which could revolutionise the way carers...

(University of Colorado Denver) A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in this month's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the activity of a recently discovered communication molecul...

(Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research) New research reports that preoperative pain and depressive symptoms in older adults place them at greater risk of delirium following surgery. According to the findings pub...

(Wiley) Researchers from Australia report that low birth weight and preterm birth are linked to increased risk for osteoarthritis (OA)-related hip replacements in adulthood. Findings published in the American College of ...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Scientists at EMBL Heidelberg have obtained the first structure of the immature form of HIV at a high enough resolution to pinpoint exactly where each building block sits in the vi...

(University of Adelaide) The world is rapidly shrinking at the same time that medical collaborations are expanding -- for the benefit of patient care right across the globe, a major international health conference in Sin...