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The number of teenage girls who inflict self-harm rose significantly since 2009, a new CDC study has found. Some experts have linked the increase in number with the rise of smartphones.

Listen up, coffee addicts: A new search says that drinking three to four cups of coffee per day might be good for you. It apparently lowers risks of heart disease, premature death, and some cancers.

(Wiley) A new HIV Medicine study identified several barriers to routine HIV testing in emergency departments and acute medical units in the UK and US.

(St John's College, University of Cambridge) Cooperatively breeding birds and fish may have evolved the adaptive ability to reduce the size of their eggs when helpers are available to lighten the parental load, a new stu...

(Karolinska Institutet) Postmenopausal hormone therapy is not associated with increased risk of stroke, provided that it is started early, according to a report from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journ...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Babies as young as 10 months can assess how much someone values a particular goal by observing how hard they are willing to work to achieve it, according to a new study from MIT an...

(Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research) A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered a key mechanism by which tumors develop resistance to radiation therapy and shown how such resistance might be overcome with drugs that ...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Learning requires the chemical adaptation of individual synapses. Researchers have now revealed the impact of an RNA-binding protein that is intimately involved in this process ...

(University of Nottingham) Original concerns that cloning caused early-onset osteoarthritis in Dolly the sheep are unfounded, say experts at the University of Nottingham and the University of Glasgow.The team, who publis...

(SAGE) New research investigating serious incidents occurring in the management of patient remains after their death concludes that safe mortuary care may be improved by applying lessons learned from existing patient saf...

(Yale University) The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives our species its identity.However, all regions of the human brain have molecular sig...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) The same bacteria present in primary tumors of patients with colorectal cancer are also present in liver metastases, a new study finds.

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) While the world focuses on controlling global warming caused by CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, less attention has been paid to the capacity of vegetation and soils to ta...

By: Daniel McDonald While you kick back and relax after your Thanksgiving dinner, your gut microbiota - the collection of beneficial microbes, mostly bacteria, that inhabit your lower intestine - will be hard at work bre...