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Alcohol dependence and binge-eating typically arise in adults with ADHD. According to research from the Linköping University, these disorders are influenced by hereditary factors where ADHD is present.

The symptoms and risks of severe asthma are reduced by half with AstraZeneca's benralizumab injection every four weeks. The drug works by destroying the eosinophils, which are responsible for causing allergy and asthma, ...

Elevators within the Bay Area Rapid Transit are overrun by urine and the stench of it because of the lack of public bathrooms. This has caused the relevant authorities to utilize something known as Urine-B-Gone.

(Kumamoto University) A research collaboration between groups in Japan, China, France, Kazakhstan, and the UK has discovered that a single T cell-selected HIV mutation can produce different T cell adaptations. The findin...

(BMJ) Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added a new title to its expanding portfolio of 60 specialist journals, with the launch of BMJ Open Ophthalmology later this month.

(Case Western Reserve University) Jonathan Karn has been awarded the 2016 Drexel Prize in Translational Medicine by the Institute for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Disease at Drexel University College of Medicine in ...

(Springer) 'F**k it! Let's get to drinking -- poison our livers!' According to researchers at the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, lyrics such as these in YouTube music videos may harmfully influence adolescent...

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) Canadian researchers are hoping that metabolic markers found in blood spots routinely collected from infant heel pricks as part of newborn screening will help d...

(Rice University) The National Science Foundation has backed a Rice University team inventing a haptic feedback system to help train doctors to perform endovascular surgeries.

(American Society for Microbiology) Researchers in Pennsylvania and Iowa have discovered that fungal communities found in chronic wounds can form mixed bacterial-fungal biofilms and can be associated with poor outcomes a...

(Michigan State University) Having sex frequently -- and enjoying it -- puts older men at higher risk for heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems. For older women, however, good sex may actually lower the risk of...

(The JAMA Network Journals) An intervention that paired caregivers with a navigator to help address the social needs of families of pediatric patients was associated with decreased needs reported by the families and impr...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) The Canadian Journal of Cardiology has just released the 2016 Focused Update to the Canadian Cardiovascular Society's atrial fibrillation guidelines. This update provides evidence-based guideli...

(The JAMA Network Journals) The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for latent tuberculosis infection in populations at increased risk. People who are considered at increased risk include people who we...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Individuals born by cesarean delivery were 15 percent more likely to become obese as children than individuals born by vaginal birth -- and the increased risk may persist throu...

(The JAMA Network Journals) In an analysis that included more than 1.4 million births, exposure to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the first trimester of pregnancy compared with nonexposure was not associated wit...

Using electric fans to relieve high levels of heat and humidity may, surprisingly, have the opposite effect for seniors, a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center heart specialists suggests.

More people are eating gluten-free, although the prevalence of celiac disease appears to have remained stable in recent years, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

A new Cochrane Review, published in the Cochrane Library today and presented at the ERS International Congress, has found evidence from randomised trials, that taking an oral vitamin D supplement in addition to standard ...

Article Using transcranial Doppler ultrasound, the study will probe the brains of college athletes to measure blood vessel function in the brain, looking for tell-tale signs related to blood flow that help diagnose concu...

News The annual meeting, scheduled for September 14-16, is the scientific platform for urologists seeking the latest technical developments and the continuous progress of urological science and practice. Contributed Auth...

News The purpose is to advance human clinical trials of Sernova's novel cell macroencapsulated implantable and scalable Cell Pouch System (CPS) with the hope to improve the quality of life and overall outcomes for the pa...