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(Temple University Health System) Canola oil is one of the most widely consumed vegetable oils, yet little is known about its health effects. Now, a study in Scientific Reports by Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple ...

Study found a link between use of hormonal contraceptives and increased risk for breast cancer. Does this mean that women should stop relying on hormonal birth control methods?

You may consume coffee to get your day started, as a pick-me-up, or to get you through a lengthy meeting. You may also drink it to, perhaps, get things moving along on schedule. About 29 percent of people claim they felt...

Pruny fingers, they're an unavoidable byproduct of a long bath or a turn washing the dishes. Though they may seem like little more than the puzzling cost of getting our hands wet, the phenomenon could actually be helping...

News Krencik's lab focused on a star-shaped cell type called astrocytes, because they are a key factor in getting the brain's neurons to connect and talk to each other ... Contributed Author: Houston Methodist Topics: Ne...

Product Announcement These micro patterns make ordinary plastics as slippery as Teflon (PTFE), and reduces friction of sticky rubber as much as 80%. We machine the micro surface onto the tooling... Contributed Author: Ho...

Videos Didditt is a small IoT device that helps users, "stick to their goals and track [their] progress," Jester explains ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News The campaign raised awareness about the available technology for checking glucose ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Diabetes

News In order to help ensure the safety and effectiveness of these products, we're working to establish a regulatory framework for how we plan to apply existing laws and regulations ... Contributed Author: U.S. FDA

(University of Turku) When people retire from work life, they sleep approximately 20 minutes longer than before retirement. The quality of sleep also improves, as retired people experience less early morning awakenings o...

(American Geriatrics Society) The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) today recognized Rep. Jan Schakowsky with its Award of Honor for her decades of leadership and commitment to the eldercare workforce. Rep. Schakowsky, ...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) The brain's complex network of neurons enables us to interpret and effortlessly navigate and interact with the world around us. But when these links are damaged due to injury or s...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) A new combination therapy for the first line treatment of advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) improves progression-free survival (PFS), according to results of...

(Dartmouth College) A Dartmouth-led study on how we learn finds that humans tend to rely on learning about the features of an object, rather than on the individual object itself. The research published in Nature Communic...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) In a new study comparing smoking rates and regulations between the US and Turkey, Mansoo Yu, associate professor of social work at the University of Missouri, found the rate of current s...

(McMaster University) The researchers looked at 37 genes that are well established as modulating the body mass in 75,230 adults with European ancestry and found the nine with the snowball effect.

(University of Cincinnati) Study shows a marked reduction in risky sex and substance abuse in troubled 18- to 24-year-olds after several months of participating in mindful yoga and positive coping strategies.

(University of Southern California) Claims for unnecessary medical services remain steady, despite changes in the insurance market designed to place more spending decisions in consumers' hands.

(Lancaster University) New research from Lancaster University has identified the 'invisible infertile', a group of marginalized people missing from survey data sources because they do not fit neatly into popular notions ...

(Rutgers University) New diagnostic methods offer a better chance for more accurate detection of the infection from the Lyme bacteria, the most common tick-borne infection in North America and Europe.

(Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Metastasis, the process in which a tumor spreads to other parts of the body, is responsible for 90 percent of deaths from tumors. In their new project, the lab of Daria Siekh...

(University of Connecticut) Researchers at the University of Connecticut, University of Exeter, University of Wisconsin and University of Iowa studied 389,166 volunteers who gave DNA samples to the UK Biobank, US Health ...