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(University of East Anglia) Positive social support from adult children is associated with reduced risk of developing dementia, according to a new research published today. Conversely, negative social support is linked w...

(Leeds Beckett University) The puzzle of how the brain regulates blood flow to prevent it from being flooded and then starved every time the heart beats has been solved with the help of engineering.

News Surgery and radiation remove, kill, or damage cancer cells in a certain area. But chemotherapy -- which uses medicines or drugs to treat cancer -- can work throughout the whole body, killing cancer cells that have s...

News Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. completed the acquisition of Torax Medical, Inc., a privately held company that manufactures the LINX Reflux Management System... Contributed Author: Sheri Kasprzak Topics:...

News Earlier this year, the National Health Service in the United Kingdom funded a trial to enable 10 patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa to undergo the surgical implant of a new bionic eye device called the Arg...

Sportscaster Holly Rowe decided to team up with the Melanoma Research Foundation in skin cancer awareness campaign. Melanoma Awareness Month is dedicated to informing people on the dangers of skin cancer and sun exposure...

In a new development, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero said his proposed head transplant operation will be on a Chinese national and not on a Russian patient. According to the surgeon, China offers many favorable fac...

As warm weather makes its way to the United States, the threat of Zika virus is revived anew, and states are gearing up for battle. Various states, for instance, are now acting against the spread of Aedes aegypti mosquit...

A new study indicated that alcohol increases risk of breast cancer in African-American women. Previous studies conducted on the subject did not involve women from the African-American ethnicity.

Heart failure patients who are unemployed have higher risk for death and rehospitalization compared with their employed counterparts. How can this finding benefit people with the heart condition?

(University of Liverpool) New research from the University of Liverpool shows that the body size of mannequins used to advertise female fashion in the UK are too thin and may be promoting unrealistic body ideals.

(Elsevier) A commentary and accompanying editorial published in the May issue of Reproductive BioMedicine Onlinecalls for a registry of egg donors to monitor long-term health after egg donation.

(Springer) A decline in homophobia is allowing young men to embrace the benefits of a non-sexual bromance with close male friends. According to Stefan Robinson of the University of Winchester in the UK, young men nowaday...

(Aarhus University) Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly effective treatment for severe depression and other mental disorders, and a new study headed by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark documents that...

(Boston University) Boston University scientists have announced two major findings that further our understanding of how stem cells become organs: the ability to grow and purify the earliest lung progenitors that emerge ...

(Scripps Research Institute) Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered why some cancers may reoccur after years in remission.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Amantadine hydrochloride may be the most common medication you've never heard of. Now, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and col...

(University of Exeter) Young mongooses may conceal their identity -- even from their own parents -- to survive.

(University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Chemists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) headed by Prof. Dr. Svetlana B. Tsogoeva at the Chair of Organic Chemistry I have made research into pharmaceutical...

(FoodMinds LLC) A new analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data, compared avocado consumers to non-consumers and found that consuming avocados may be associated with an overall better...

(Spectrum) A newly published reanalysis of raw data from a study widely used by chemical assessment agencies to set hazard assessments for formaldehyde shows no link between formaldehyde exposure and leukemia. The peer-r...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine) In this first ever molecular drug-imaging study in children, researchers in The Netherlands used whole-body positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans to determine wheth...