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If you smoke cigarettes, you're putting yourself at a heightened risk for heart disease. That correlation is well-known and unchallenged today, but that wasn't always so. It took an ambitious, years-long project, the Fra...

Spending too much time under the sun may end up increasing your risk for sunburns. If you happen to develop these painful skin sores, these five simple tips can help reduce the discomfort you might feel.

Shootings in the United States are responsible for at least 19 deaths or injuries among children, a new report has warned. The study underscores the urgency of tackling gun violence today, as well as preventing child dea...

Product Announcement Designed for use in small and embedded systems where full-sized PCIe slots are unavailable or impractical, the new Eco Capture family of high-performance ... Topics: STEM

News To do this, the team develops mathematical models and numerical algorithms ... Contributed Author: University of Luxembourg Topics: Neurology

News Dual-agent PET/MR is further supported by time of flight, a quantitative feature of modern PET image reconstruction ... Contributed Author: Society of Nuclear Medicine Topics: Medical Diagnostics

The American Heart Association said in a new advisory that coconut oil is not healthy. Here are healthier cooking oil options that contain less amount of saturated fat.

News The researchers modeled their Metafluidics site after popular open-source repositories such as GitHub ... Contributed Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topics: STEM

A three-in-one blood test can change the way advanced prostate cancer is treated and pave way for precision medicine for cancer. The blood test can even improve survival of patients, so here's how it works.

Six top members of Trump's presidential advisory council on HIV/AIDS have resigned on June 13 to protest the administration's lack of HIV/AIDS policies. What will happen to the ongoing fight against this disease?

American teenagers and seniors continue to live sedentary lifestyles with little to no physical activity, a new study revealed. Researchers hope schedules in schools can be modified to be conducive to physical activity.

Use of touchscreen devices such as tablets and smartphones pose health risks to children. Now, a campaign in Colorado seeks to stop retailers from selling phones for use by children younger than 13 years old.

(Cancer Research UK) Scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that could predict which lung cancer patients will benefit most from immunotherapy treatment, according to a Cancer Research UK funded study* publ...

(Boston University Medical Center) Orly Leiva, a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has been named by the American Society of Hematology (ASH) as one of 22 medical students select...

(Tufts University) A survey of United States hospitals, eldercare facilities and therapy animal organizations revealed their health and safety policies for therapy animal visits varied widely, with many not following rec...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) A recent study by researchers at The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital points to a new treatment strategy for rhabdomyosarcoma that takes advantage of the body's own im...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new poll will release its first results later this month, beginning a series that will take the pulse of the over-50 portion of the American population on a wide range of he...

(VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology)) Researchers at VIB, KU Leuven, and UZ Leuven, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Jena, have demonstrated that measuring neurofilaments provides reliabl...

(American Academy of Ophthalmology) A new study suggests that most people with acute conjunctivitis, or pink eye, are getting the wrong treatment.

(University of Leicester) Academics examined the effectiveness of a rape prevention campaign in bars and nightclubs in Liverpool.

(San Diego State University) How the brain narrows down a smorgasbord of related concepts to the one word you're truly seeking is a complicated and poorly understood cognitive task. Looking at epilepsy patients who had a...

(University of Alberta) After uncovering the progression of HIV infection in the brain thanks to a new mathematical model developed by a UAlberta research team, clinicians and researchers are developing a nasal spray to ...