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Christine Todd Whitman, the former EPA administrator who attended the 15th anniversary ceremony of the 9/11 attack, apologized for the first time for declaring that the air around Ground Zero was safe for people to breat...

Article An international team of more than 20 scientists has inadvertently discovered how to create a new type of crystal using light more than 10 billion times brighter than the sun. Contributed Author:  University of ...

Article To help fight this deadly disease, a Michigan State University professor has found that peptides, or strings of amino acids, related to Alzheimer's wiggle at dangerous speeds prior to clumping or forming the plaq...

News Based on early results, the data demonstrate that PiXL is a promising refractive procedure for low myopia, offering the potential for vision improvement without tissue ablation. Contributed Author:  Avedro, Inc. To...

The FDA has warned women and physicians not to rely on commercially available screening tests for detecting ovarian cancer. Women with a family history of ovarian cancer as well as gene mutation are strictly advised not ...

News Clinical practice guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology 2016 reinforce benefits of cryoballoon ablation and long-term cardiac monitoring. Contributed Author:  Medtronic plc Topics:  Cardiovascular

For the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring of a non-human primate.

News Equipped with an optical fiber and companion console, the ClariCore system performs spectral analysis of prostate tissue during biopsy, providing in-vivo tissue classification that seeks to minimize the number of no...

Article Researchers have come to realize that cancer is a disease driven by the same "survival of the fittest" forces that Darwin proposed drove the evolution of life on Earth. In the case of tumors, however, individual ...

News RapidPlan is a machine-learning tool that studies best practices from past successful treatment plans and creates knowledge based treatment models that are applied to improve the treatment plans for future patients....

News The system consists of a balloon folded inside a capsule that is swallowed by the patient, with no sedation or anesthesia required. The gas-filled weight-loss balloon is now available in the United States. Contribut...

People on the spectrum appear aloof and distant because they have trouble establishing and maintaining relationships. All that could change, however, as researchers identify a drug target that treatment can focus on to i...

For the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring of a non-human primate.

(Lund University) Research from Lund University in Sweden shows that one in five adolescents who have undergone obesity surgery experience poor mental health. Some have even had suicidal thoughts. The study is based on f...

(Penn State) For the first time, scientists know what happens to a virus' shape when it invades a host cell, thanks to an experiment by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh School of...

(Rice University) Synthetic chemists discover a one-step solution to make nitrogen-laden molecular precursors for the preparation of drugs, agrochemicals and other bioactive molecules.

(Umea University) Urinary leakage whilst coughing and jumping is common in women. Using a self-administered treatment via a mobile app called Tät® for three months reduced symptoms, led to fewer leakages and improved q...

(Wiley) Of all alcohol-related injuries in various public hospital emergency departments in Queensland, Australia, more occurred at home than at licensed premises.

(Umea University) Genome-wide studies of fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) suggest that the evolutionary conserved enzyme Pfh1 helicase facilitates DNA synthesis by tracking along with the replication apparatus, ...

(University of Chicago Booth School of Business) A new study from Chicago Booth finds that by appealing to widely-held adolescent values, it's possible to reduce unhealthy eating habits and motivate better food choices a...

(University of British Columbia Okanagan campus) If Canadian parents are going to get their kids to exercise more, they need more than just public awareness campaigns.Parents exposed to one such national campaign were ac...

(University of California - Davis) UC Davis has been awarded $29,290,259 from the National Institutes of Health under the next five-year phase of the Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP). UC Davis is the lead organization in a ...