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(Elsevier) Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of Clinical Neurophysiology Practice, an open-access journal that focuses o...

Cell phones ride in our pockets or purses everywhere we go, which makes them a powerful tool for monitoring explosive epidemics. Epidemiologists rely on computer models to simulate the spread of disease and determine how...

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, addressed the World Health Assembly today. She stressed the links between climate change and health, including those ...

Hearing a baby's cry can reduce the ability of parents to focus on tasks, a new study says. However, findings show that it could also teach adults how to focus their attention more selectively by triggering greater cogni...

Higher fluctuations in blood pressure may increase the risk of brain function decline, a new study has found. Higher variability in BP readings may signify inconsistent blood flow, which may lead to cognitive problems an...

Premature babies born with extremely low birth weights have higher chances of developing lifelong health and socioeconomic issues. According to a research these preemies are also more likely to earn less and remain singl...

Ulcerative colitis affects thousands of Americans every year. New research suggests that transplanting healthy stool into patients with ulcerative colitis may help alleviate symptoms or even cure the disease.

A new study highlighted the need for doctors to effectively communicate with their patients the status of their health, treatment process and term of prognosis. Patients, first and foremost, must have an active role in m...

24 May 2016: One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25 000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute ...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If running a marathon was easy, everyone would do it. The 26.2 mile race is tough for anyone ... especially for Paul Sykes. He ran one just weeks after heart surgery. He was born w...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Yearly flu shots are strongly recommended for adults with certain chronic illnesses, but patients of racial/ethnic minority groups are less likely to receive them. Perceived discrimination may be ...

(Boston University Medical Center) Women with severe depressive symptoms have a decreased chance of becoming pregnant, while the use of psychotropic medications does not appear to harm fertility, a study by researchers f...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A survey of more than 216,000 adolescents from all 50 states indicates the number of teens with marijuana-related problems is declining. Similarly, the rates of marijuana use by...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) Sleep clinicians and scientists from around the world will discuss current practices in sleep medicine and the latest findings in sleep and circadian research at SLEEP 2016, the 30th ...

(Mayo Clinic) In roughly one-third of pancreatic cancer patients, tumors have grown around the pancreas to encompass critical blood vessels. Conventional wisdom has long held that surgery to remove the tumors is rarely a...

(Binghamton University) Drinking during early to mid-adolescence can lead to vulnerability to chronic stress, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. A research team led by Lin...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Scholars at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics will continue their innovative work on one of humanity's oldest and most complex problems -- how to ethically ensure enough nutritious ...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand, thanks to a $7 million angel investment from an anonymous contributor who originally invested $4 milli...

(Michigan State University) Parents struggling to find and afford therapy for their child with autism may eventually be able to provide that therapy themselves with the help of telehealth training.

(Scripps Research Institute) A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has invented a method for rapidly identifying venoms that strike a specific target in the body -- and optimizing such venoms for the...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Too few adults taking antipsychotic medications are being screened for abnormalities in lipids, which include cholesterol and triglycerides, new research from the Universi...

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) ) ECDC has updated its rapid risk assessment on the Zika epidemic that continues to evolve in the Americas and the Caribbean.