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A new study shows that saturated fats may be more beneficial than carbohydrates. A diet high in carbohydrates but low in saturated fats was associated with increased levels of a fatty acid associated with diabetes.

Like how a sweet peach smells? How cute. Sweet Peach means serious business as a probiotic regimen formulated to restore balance in the body, fighting infections.

Another reason to lace up! Researchers show running makes it easier to move in older adults, affirm the benefits of vigorous exercise in a study.

Talk therapy sessions were found effective in preventing high-risk individuals from committing suicide. In the study involving Danish participants, the positive effects of psychosocial counseling are still evident 10 yea...

(University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST) For coral reefs to persist, rates of reef construction must exceed reef breakdown. Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but ne...

(University of Edinburgh) Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have received funding to start testing a new cell therapy to treat patients with liver disease. A clinical trial will begin within the next year.

(Rice University) Computer models developed at Rice University show how microtubules age. The models help explain the dynamic instability seen in microtubules, essential elements in cells' cytoskeletons.

(Columbia University Medical Center) Columbia University Medical Center has presented Andrew Hattersley, D.M., and Mark McCarthy, M.D., with the 16th Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Research in Diabetes, for their wor...

(MediaSource) Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are trying to help patients who have suffered a stroke improve their arm movement by stimulating the brain using a device called a Transcranial...

(Inderscience Publishers) Members of the public in sub-Saharan Africa who are carriers of the hereditary disease sickle cell disease must be educated aggressively through public health campaigns to raise awareness of the...

(Elsevier) Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of the latest title in the Current Opinion journal series: Current O...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) According to Dr. Alon Friedman, from the Ben-Gurion University Brain Imaging Research Center and discoverer of the new diagnostic, 'until now, there wasn't a diag...

(Georgia State University) Promoting healthy gut microbiota, the bacteria that live in the intestine, can help treat or prevent metabolic syndrome, a combination of risk factors that increases a person's risk for heart d...

(SAGE Publications) New guidelines released for the clinical management of eating disorders. They are intended to provide current evidence based guidance on the assessment and treatment of people with eating disorders by...

(Aarhus University) Researchers from Aarhus have now uncovered how parasites that cause the deadly sleeping sickness in Africa absorb an important nutrient from the human blood stream. The result may help the development...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) Abnormal connections between neurons are the likely cause of motor coordination issues seen in autism spectrum disorder. Using a mouse model of autism, scientists from the Universit...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A commonly prescribed muscle relaxant may be an effective treatment for a rare but devastating form of diabetes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. L...

(University of Connecticut) Researchers had never shown exactly how cells in the brain stem detect carbon dioxide and regulate breathing in humans. After taking a mutation from a two-month-old baby and expressing it in h...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) HIV-1 infected US military members and beneficiaries treated with antiretroviral therapy soon after infection were half as likely to develop AIDS and were more l...

(University of Toronto) Almost $2 million is being invested by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help fight major parasitic diseases of the developing world.

(Scripps Research Institute) A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute has found a simple method to convert human skin cells into the specialized neurons that detect pain, itch, touch and other bodily ...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Pregnant women with diabetes are at an increased risk for many adverse birth outcomes. Preconception care (PCC) can significantly lower these risks by helping pregnant mothers with diabetes con...