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Defying the conventional way of solving problems by thinking with the head, the psychological experts suggest that thinking with hands can help solve problems in a better way. Through experiments, the experts observed th...

(LA BioMed) ICUs, which provide the most expensive and invasive forms of care in a hospital setting, are being used too often for patients who don't need that level of care, according to a new study in JAMA Internal Medi...

(American Chemical Society) It's almost time to ring in 2017. And since most New Year's celebrations include alcohol, Reactions' latest episode explains the chemistry behind its effects -- drunkenness, frequent bathroom ...

(Boston Children's Hospital) About half of US children with special health care needs -- 5.6 million children -- receive medical care from uncompensated family members worth billions of dollars, finds a large national st...

A team of researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of Shigella sonnei, the bacteria that is involved in 2014 and 2015 shigellosis outbreaks in California. The researchers identified how the S. sonnei acquired a...

(Kyoto University) Sperm are constantly replenished in the adult male body. Understanding the workings of stem cells responsible for this replenishment is expected to shed light on why male fertility diminishes with age,...

By: Elizabeth Kittrie, Senior Advisor for Data Science, National Institutes of Health In the spirit of open science - a movement to make data and other information from scientific research available to everyone -- the Na...

A number of factors can affect the rate at which cancer cells spread in the body. Now, researchers have discovered that specialized blood vessel 'roads' have a hand in promoting cancer metastasis.

Protein generally associated with obesity was found to inhibit patients' reaction to leukemia treatment and contribute to the severity of the disease. Further research will document how this information can be used in in...

There's nothing like politics to get people riled up and researchers have discovered that getting political beliefs challenged fires up the same brain areas associated with personal identity and threat response.

(Osaka University) Osaka University-led researchers showed that single CREB molecules interact with CRE for a longer duration at specific sites in the nucleus. Neuronal activity increased CREB-CRE interactions in the nuc...

(The JAMA Network Journals) The homeless sleep less and are more likely to have insomnia and daytime fatigue than people in the general population, findings researchers believe suggest more attention needs to be paid to ...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Marijuana use significantly increased and its perceived harm decreased among eighth- and 10th-graders in Washington state following enactment of recreational marijuana law...

(University of Southern California) Parents and guardians who provide several unpaid hours of medical care for children with special health care needs often have limited means and other struggles of their own.

(University of Chicago Medical Center) In a research letter published Dec. 27, 2016, in JAMA, University of Chicago physicians found that when one patient on a typical 20-bed hospital unit took a turn for the worse -- a ...

(PLOS) Mutations that have been linked to endometrial cancer can be found in the uterine lavage fluid of pre- and post-menopausal women both with and without detectable cancer, according to a study published in PLOS Medi...

(University of Basel) A combination of a diabetes medication and an antihypertensive drug can effectively combat cancer cells. The team of researchers led by Prof. Michael Hall at the Biozentrum of the University of Base...

(Yale University) Hospitals that were financially penalized for too many readmissions were more likely than non-penalized institutions to subsequently reduce readmissions for all conditions, according to a new study by Y...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Marijuana use increased and the drug's perceived harmfulness decreased among eighth- and 10th-graders in Washington after marijuana was legalized for recreational use by adults but there was n...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Just 20 conditions make up more than half of all spending on health care in the United States, according to a new comprehensive financial analysis that examines spending by d...

(University of Groningen) Bacteria that are susceptible to antibiotics can survive when enough resistant cells around them are expressing an antibiotic-deactivating factor. This new take on how the microbial context can ...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Vanderbilt University scientists have received notification from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that testing in humans may proceed for an investigational new drug for Alz...