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The joint UN statement on ending discrimination in health care settings calls for health workers to fulfil their responsibilities, but also to have their rights protected.

Parents, beware: having your kids sun tanned is not a sign of good health, a new study has revealed. Researchers said a sun tan or sun burn is caused by damaged skin.

The wellness sticker posted on Goop is not made of astronauts' spacesuit material, NASA said. This is not the first time a product promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand gets debunked by experts.

Product Announcement The 13 W/m°K putty-like material requires very low compression force at high compression rates ... Contributed Author: Fujipoly Topics: STEM

The number of health problems linked to use of cosmetics and hair care products has increased, but researchers think cases are underreported. FDA investigation revealed one company received more than 21,000 complaints ab...

News These nanomaterials are used both as scaffolds, a supportive framework for nerve cells ... Contributed Author: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati Topics: STEM

News It can rapidly and non-destructively image the margins of large fresh tissue specimens with the same level of detail as traditional pathology ... Contributed Author: University of Washington Topics: Oncology

News This technique, called human-in-the-loop optimization, customizes walking assistance for individuals and significantly improves energy economy ... Contributed Author: Lisa Kulick, Phys.org Topics: STEM

News The iris in the human eye is a tissue that regulates the amount of light coming into the eye by changing the size of the pupil ... Contributed Author: Phys.org Topics: STEM

A mother whose son was hospitalized for a rare disorder has shared a photo of his astronomical medical bills on Twitter. The viral photo shows the grave implications that repealing and replacing ObamaCare would have on A...

80-year-old Elsie Dabrowski from Sunapee, New Hampshire, has suffered bobcat mauling in her own garden. Know what to do and how to stay safe from animal attacks, particularly with rabid ones.

(University of California - San Diego) In a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Xijing Hospital and Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center in China, report that DNA meth...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that while perimenopausal female mice that gave birth multiple times (multiparous) were at h...

(Stanford University Medical Center) Researchers assigned levels of risk to 25 mutations associated with breast and ovarian cancer in a large, Stanford-led study. The results may be helpful in guiding treatment and scree...

(Kansas State University) Kansas State University researchers published a study in Frontiers in Environmental Science that showed Manganese relates differently than its cancer-causing cousin, arsenic, to dissolved organi...

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively short p...

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) A new way to grow larger fish and feed the expanding world population has earned a Hebrew University aquaculture expert a 2017 Kaye Innovation Award. Young tilapia fed molecules devel...

(University of Warwick) University of Warwick expertise is contributing to a world-first £1.5million study aiming to tackle one of the biggest public health threats we face -- antibiotic resistance.

(Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) Rui Costa will be awarded the Ariëns Kappers Medal.

(Kazan Federal University) Biofilms, the communities of surface-attached bacteria embedded into extracellular matrix, are ubiquitous microbial consortia securing the effective resistance of constituent cells to environme...

(Columbia University Medical Center) A community-wide intervention for families who receive WIC benefits reduced obesity risk factors in preschoolers.

(American Geriatrics Society) The ability to walk well is a sign of independence and good health for older adults, for example, and it may be affected by the use of multiple medications. Although healthcare providers kno...