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(Université Laval) Université Laval's Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval (CHU) are proud to announce that the first clinical study for a Zika vaccine i...

A new global study has identified 10 leading risk factors for stroke, and has determined that the vast majority of them are preventable.

(Pollock Communications) Investigations show that unique compounds in cranberry juice, dried cranberries and various cranberry extracts hold great potential for the entire body.

(Wiley) Researchers have discovered a protein that stimulates secretion of ghrelin, an appetite-stimulating hormone produced in the stomach. When fed to mice, the protein, called soy-ghretropin, increased blood levels of...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Oleic acid plus a constellation of minor constituents as a natural antihypertensive.

(The Lancet) A major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study, published today in The Lancet HIV journal, reveals that although deaths from HIV/AIDS have been steadily declining from a peak in 2005, 2.5 ...

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) When we exercise, our body's oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A new study analyses the effect of consuming ...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Ship emissions adversely affect the health of inhabitants of coastal regions. This was the main finding of a study on the influence of ship e...

(Wiley) Adding sulphonylureas (SUs) to metformin remains a commonly used strategy for treating type 2 diabetes, but individual SUs differ and may confer different risks of abnormally low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. SUs...

(Wiley) According to an analysis of publicly available data from 186 countries, direct medical costs of surgery put an estimated 43.9 percent of the world's population at risk of financial catastrophe and between 30.8 an...

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) The ability to switch disease-causing genes on and off remains a dream for many physicians, research scientists and patients. A team from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin an...

(eLife ) Travel fosters tool use in wild chimpanzees and it may also have been a driving force in early technological evolution by humans.

(Wiley) The lay press and thousands of nutritional products warn of oxygen radicals or oxidative stress and suggest taking so-called antioxidants to prevent or cure disease. Professor Pietro Ghezzi at the Brighton and Su...

(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) Children born with heart disease have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes after age 30. The risk appears even higher for those born with a cyanotic congenital h...

(Wiley) Obesity is a well-known risk factor for osteoarthritis, but its effects on cartilage repair are unknown. In a recent study in a mouse model of cartilage repair, a high fat diet and increased body weight did not n...

(University of Washington) A University of Washington team has shed new light on a common but poorly understood bacteria known to live in low-oxygen areas in the ocean. By culturing and sequencing the microbe's entire ge...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) A study from the Global Burden of Disease collaborative network, published today in The Lancet HIV, found that 74 countries saw increases in age-standardized rates of new inf...

(Springer) The number of new cases of men suffering from metastatic prostate cancer has risen significantly in a decade's time, and is 72 percent greater in the year 2013 compared to 2004. This is according to the author...

(Wiley) Chronic liver disease (CLD) and cirrhosis are serious liver conditions but little is known about how they affect ethnic minority populations in the United States. When researchers examined CLD and cirrhosis among...

(Northwestern University) The number of new cases of metastatic prostate cancer climbed 72 percent in the past decade from 2004 to 2013, reports a new study. The report considers whether a recent trend of fewer men being...

(University of Tsukuba) A team of researchers led by Dr. Sonoko Ogawa at Tsukuba University revealed that expression of an estrogen receptor (ERα) in the medial amygdala (MeA) of the limbic system during puberty is esse...

The American Academy of Pediatrics tells parents to limit their children's exposure to screen violence. The group cited studies linking violent media exposure and aggressive behavior in kids.