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Delegates at the World Health Assembly have agreed resolutions and decisions on air pollution, chemicals, the health workforce, childhood obesity, violence, noncommunicable diseases, and the election of the next Director...

A Norwegian study has linked workaholism to psychiatric disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder and ADHD. The researchers also developed criteria to diagnose the addictive behavior.

The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum hijacks an immune system process to invade red blood cells, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. Understanding how malaria invades the cell...

Bright lights could encourage healthy eating. A new study found that diners are more likely to order healthier food items when dining in well-lit establishments.

Your brain has processes it follows to make and break habits. By understanding more of this process, researchers are exploring how brain processes can be manipulated to strike a balance between habitual and deliberate ac...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Probuphine as an opioid treatment alternative. The drug is the first implant form of buprenorphine.

Women with breast cancer genes may lower their risk of developing the disease. The key is to make better lifestyle changes and healthier decisions.

A new study has found that amyloid-beta plaques, which cause Alzheimer's disease, is triggered by an ensuing infection. Researchers theorized that the pathogen passes through the blood-brain barrier.

For the first time, researchers found a superbug with gene resistant to antibiotic colistin in the U.S. What are the threats posed by this strain of E.coli bacteria?

U.S. soldiers are most prone to suicide attempts even when they haven't been deployed yet, with the highest risk marked at the second month of service. Learn about a new study's data on attempted suicides in the U.S. mil...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- About 17 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury every year. It can be caused by a bump, blow or jolt. But the brain can also suffer when it's not being used effectively, an...

(NORC at the University of Chicago) Departing the workforce entirely and entering retirement at age 65 is no longer a reality for many older people in the United States, according to a recent survey by The Associated Pre...

(Weill Cornell Medicine) Oncologists from NewYork-Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medicine will discuss their latest research findings at the American Society for Clinical Oncology annu...

(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Scientists Janet Jansson and Ljiljana Paša-Toli are part of a core group of scientists leading a national effort to understand communities of microorganisms and their role in ...

(University of the Pacific) Technologies that make it harder for people to abuse opioids - like doctoring pills so that they produce unpleasant side effects if broken, crushed or injected -- likely will have limited effe...

(Hokkaido University) A new tool by Japan-based researchers predicts the risk of Zika virus importation and local transmission for 189 countries.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) By increasing the level of a specific microRNA (miRNA) molecule, researchers have for the first time restored chemotherapy sensitivity in vitro to a line of human pancreatic cancer cells...

(INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)) Finding new, more effective and personalized treatments for cancer is the challenge of many researchers. A challenge that has been successfully met b...

(University of Michigan) It happens in many households. Kids are tapping on their cell phones or are preoccupied by their favorite TV show as their parents ask them a question or want them to do a chore.

(Brown University) Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments where melanin is made -- that balance is partly regulated, scientists now know, by a protein call...

(North Carolina State University) Research finds that having an 'alcohol identity' puts college students at greater risk of having drinking problems -- and that posting about alcohol use on social media sites is actually...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) The heart rate may be an indicator of a person's life expectancy. A research team at the Technical University of Munich has to this end analyzed an effect which at first seems parad...