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Quitting bad habits and adopting good ones is easier when the goal is undertaken with a partner, a new study suggests. Just how effective is support for adopting healthy living choices?

Genetic study yields new insight into the most common cause of inherited intellectual disabilities. Patient with unusual genetic mutation provides researchers with clues to condition and its source.

Putting in long hours at work could lead to putting in long hours at your neighborhood bar, study suggests. 50-hour work weeks links to increased likelihood of "risky alcohol use," researchers say.

When Ebola tore through West Africa, it claimed the lives of people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. At the same time, thousands of children in these countries became orphans, with futures unsure as the virus continu...

Diabetics may soon do away with the painful needle pricks with the arrival of a new tattoo that can check their blood glucose levels for them.

Sitting for prolonged periods is associated with up to 90 percent increased risks for diabetes and even premature death and exercise can't help reduce these odds.

Teens and children eat pizza more often than adults but experts advise reducing kids' consumption of pizza because it could raise their risk for unwanted health conditions.

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Multipotent cells isolated from the human umbilical cord, called mesenchymal stromal cells, have shown promise for use in cell therapy to treat a variety of human disease...

(Oregon State University) A little bit of sensitivity training can help people form better first impressions of those with facial paralysis, reducing prejudices against people with a visible but often unrecognizable disa...

(US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases) Scientists studying the genetic makeup of the Ebola virus currently circulating in West Africa have identified several mutations that could have implications fo...

(Wiley) Study suggests that short-term high-dose atorvastatin therapy may be superior to low-dose atorvastatin for protecting heart surgery patients' kidney health.

(Technische Universität Dresden) Professor Martin Bornhäuser and Dr. Christoph Röllig, both experts in the field of blood cancer at the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Faculty of the TU Dresden, have now turned their long-t...

(Rice University) Injectable hydrogels promote the growth of healthy blood vessels in new tissue. The Rice University research shows promise for a broad range of tissue regeneration strategies, as well as therapies to he...

(University of Massachusetts Medical School) A study of long-lived mutant C. elegans by scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School shows that the genetically altered worms spend a greater portion of the...

(NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute) National Institutes of Health researchers have uncovered a key factor in understanding the elevated cancer risk associated with gene therapy. They conducted research on mice...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Existing cancer therapies are geared toward massacring tumor cells, but Johns Hopkins researchers propose a different strategy: subtly hardening cancer cells to prevent them from invading new are...

(University of Kent) New biosciences research at the University of Kent could point the way to greater understanding of the heart mutations that cause sudden cardiac arrest.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Consumers perceive that organic cow milk differs from conventionally produced milk and that these differences justify the premium price for organic milk. In a review published in the Journal of...

(American Society of Anesthesiologists) Body temperature decreases during the first hour of surgery, even when patients are actively warmed with forced air, reports a new study published in the February issue of Anesthes...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Penn Medicine researchers, in a continuation of their groundbreaking work to better understand how anesthesia works in the body, have found the first new class of novel ane...

(University of Gothenburg) Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that a weak electric 'noise' can improve balance and motor skills in patients with Parkinson's disease. In cooperation with NASA, the rese...

(Wiley) In the brain, blood flow and cognitive function peak during young adulthood, but a new study of 52 young women found that oxygen availability, which is known to positively relate to brain health and function, is ...