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Children who sleep late at night are likely to grow up as obese teens. What time should preschoolers go to sleep to reduce the likelihood of weight problems later in life?

The Zika virus outbreak in Brazil may have already peaked and will soon fizzle out, a new study suggests. Researchers say efforts to prevent its spread are 'futile.'

The number of people sent to hospitals as a result of synthetic pot poisoning rises. In New York, 33 people who used synthetic marijuana were hospitalized after staggering and collapsing on the street like zombies.

Almost 2 million people in England could be living with killer diseases such as lung cancer, lung disease and heart disease that remain undiagnosed. The Public Health England launched a campaign that will help people in ...

It would appear your health also has an effect on how sociable you are. Researchers have discovered that the presence of a certain molecule in the immune system helps dictate the level of social interaction organisms eng...

More women in the United Kingdom are delaying childbearing, which affects fertility rates across age groups. New figures show that more women over 40s are having babies compared to their under 20s counterparts.

TUCSON, Ariz. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A University of Arizona researcher is growing cartilage from stem cells taken from fat tissue. He said that cartilage could repair small defects and large areas of damage seen in many ...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new study found a six-fold increase in the age-adjusted prevalence of any sleep disorder diagnosis over an 11-year period among US veterans. The largest increases were identified in...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers and physicians have grappled with the role of 'adjuvant,' or post-surgery, chemotherapy for patients with early-stage colon cancer, even for cancers considered high risk. N...

(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Food chemists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have found that garlic aroma is evident in the breast milk of women who have consumed garlic. This is caused by ally...

(University of Massachusetts Medical School) Using a systems-biology approach, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School made a startling discovery that immune system signaling can directly affect, and...

(University of Veterinary Medicine -- Vienna) Microorganisms, among them fungi, are a natural and rich source of antibiotic compounds. A team from the Vetmeduni Vienna and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sci...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Would having your exercise performance compared to that of your peers motivate you do more? A new study suggests it might. And adding a financial incentive would only sweet...

Article Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have developed a much cheaper and more practical optical magnetic field sensor that even works at room temperature or at body temperature....

Misunderstandings about prognosis between patients with advanced cancer and their doctors was common, in a study reported in JAMA Oncology, and the vast majority of patients didn't know that their doctors held different ...

Along with eating right and exercising, people should consider adding another healthy habit to their list: turning out the lights. That's according to a new study reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Jul...

News A team of biomedical researchers have discovered a "smart" organic, biodegradable nanoparticle that uses heat and light in a controlled manner to potentially target and ablate tumors with greater precision. Contribu...

Industry Brief Medical device manufacturers that sell their products in the global market benefit from ISO 13485:2016 certification because ISO standards are recognized worldwide and certain countries actually require it...

Product Release Mill-Max has expanded its selection of wire termination products with the addition of new wire crimp and solder cup receptacles. Contributed Author:  Mill-Max

Publishing online July 14 in the journal Science, the researchers say that despite the discovery of Zika in Uganda in 1947 and the identification of the first confirmed human infection in Nigeria six years later, few cas...

News Andrea Martin, a Carnegie Mellon University doctoral candidate in biomed engineering, is developing a device that uses magnets to filter out patients' red blood cells infected by the mosquito-borne parasite, which m...

News Soberlink announced that the Soberlink Breathalyzer has received 510(k) pre-market clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medical use by healthcare providers to remotely measure alcohol in hu...