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Heart disease is the number one killer for American women, even deadlier than cancer per experts. Women can avoid cardiovascular diseases by quitting or reducing smoking among other things.

(University of Montreal) Researchers from Canada, the US and Italy uncover evidence that people in the Upper Paleolithic Period used stone spatulas to decorate the bodies of the dead with ochre.

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Early phase discoveries by polymer physicist Murugappan Muthukumar at UMass Amherst regarding the fundamental science of proteins in the lens of the human eye could revolutionize ...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that a significant decrease in automobile travel from 2003-2014 correlated with a decrease in the number of crash deaths, with t...

News A team of Université Laval researchers has cast into doubt a tenet of evolutionary biology according to which organisms with more than one copy of the same gene in their genome are more... Contributed Author: Phys....

News Positron emission tomography plays a pivotal role for monitoring the distribution and accumulation of radiolabeled nanomaterials in living subjects. The radioactive metals... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: Med...

News The bacterial world is rife with unusual talents, among them a knack for producing electricity. In the wild, "electrogenic" bacteria generate current as part of their metabolism, and now researchers... Contributed A...

News Researchers from the University of Maryland College Park (UMD) and Baltimore (UMB) campuses have developed a blood test that could help doctors more quickly diagnose schizophrenia and other... Contributed Author: Ph...

News Instead of running tests on live kidneys, researchers at Binghamton, University State University of New York have developed a model kidney for working out the kinks in medicines... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topic...

New research has shown that approximately two in every 100 people suffer from mirror-touch synesthesia. The condition involves a phantom feeling of being touched when exposed to a visual stimulus where someone is being t...

News MIT chemical engineers have developed an extremely sensitive detector that can track single cells' secretion of dopamine, a brain chemical responsible for carrying messages involved in reward-motivated... Contribute...

News The human mouth can harbour more than 700 different species of bacteria. Under normal circumstances these microbes co-exist with us as part of our resident oral microbiota. But when bacteria spread to other tissues....

South Korea has raised its foot-and-mouth disease alert status to highest level as a second strain of the virus was confirmed Thursday. The government has begun vaccinating all its cattle and livestock.

News Many scientists are pursuing ways to treat disease by delivering DNA or RNA that can turn a gene on or off. However, a major obstacle to progress in this field has been finding ways to safely deliver that genetic......

Product Announcement PEM Type SL locknuts are available in thread sizes four to 40 through 3/8-16 and M3 ... Contributed Author: Penn Engineering

A newly released federal study has found that about 1 in 4 adults who think they have good or excellent hearing have signs of hearing loss. What can be done to prevent this permanent damage?

A concussion can affect a patient's driving ability even after the symptoms are gone, according to new research. The next step of the research is to determine exactly when concussion patients can resume driving.

A study conducted by the BMC suggests that a possible link exists between miscarriage rates for IVF and DST. The researchers reveal that pregancy losses are higher for women who underwent IVF during DST.

Mark Zuckerberg has donated $50 million dollars to Chan Zuckerberg Biohub . Some of the money would go into researching neural implants which could lead scientists to create technology to read a person's mind.

Two new studies have shown that a balanced diet works best when combined with certain types of exercises. The studies prove that the number of calories is not the only contributing factor when it comes to fitness.

New research from Tufts University suggested that switching from refined grains to whole grains can lead to greater weight loss. This is through reducing calories retained during digestion and speeding up metabolism.

A new study has shown that childhood cancer survivors may take longer achieving psychosexual development milestones - sexual debut, committing to relationships, and having kids - but are just as sexually satisfied as peo...