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News HealthTap released a report today that revealed that compassion is more important than cost to patients (and doctors) when ranking doctors. In a climate where cost and access are often cited as key priorities among ...

News Neisseria gonorrhoeae (N. gonorrhoeae) strains resistant to azithromycin and/or with decreased susceptibility to ceftriaxone are common in China, according to a prevalence study published this week in PLOS Medicine....

News University of Leeds scientists are looking back in time at previously discarded chemical compounds, to see if any could be developed for new antibiotics. In the heyday of antibiotic development in the mid-20th centu...

News A study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry is the first to describe a signaling pathway that affects communication--a process called quorum sensing--between Streptococcus bacteria cells. This type of b...

News Princeton University researchers report that in mice, fructose, a sugar found in fruit, is processed mainly in the small intestine, not in the liver as had....... Contributed Author: Princeton University Topics: Dia...

News The internal anatomy of our lungs is surprisingly variable, and some of those variations are associated with a greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study led by.......... Contributed A...

A study done by Japanese scientists found that a chemical used in cooking McDonald's fries can help fight baldness. Oil from the fries can lead to a cure.

President Donald Trump's love of using Twitter to attack political opponents is well-known. While throwing his latest attack at the Democrats, he went after the UK Health Service and Prime Minister Theresa May wasn't hav...

News The company's medical-grade TPEs are developed for cold-storage bags and pouches and exhibit low-temperature toughness which is superior to PVC. They also weigh less at comparable film gauges and open the possibilit...

Somebody took a selfie with dental school students, a professor, and two severed heads in a workshop at Yale University. The officials of the school, which was not in charge of the workshop, described the incident as "di...

A study involving nearly 500,000 adults in China suggests that smokers and heavy drinkers who drink hot tea regularly may have increased risk of developing esophageal cancer. How can the hot beverage cause the potentiall...

Findings of an animal study showed that frequently staying in dimly-lit room can change the brain's structure and impair ability to learn and remember. How does dim light affect memory and learning?

(University of Delaware) New study in Nature Communications quantifies health benefits of new standard for shipping fuel, finding it will result in a 3.6 percent reduction of childhood asthma globally.

(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) The MycetOS (Mycetoma Open Source) project was launched today by the University of Sydney, Erasmus MC, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to use an Open Pharm...

(PLOS) The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) announce today an agreement that enables the automatic posting of research articles submitted to PLOS journals on bioRxiv, CSHL's prepr...

(Oregon State University) The dynamics of a couple's relationship, including the exclusivity of the partnership, the level of commitment to the partnership and participation in sexual decision-making with their partner, ...

(Florida Atlantic University) A study led by researchers from Florida Atlantic University has found that differences in the production of the neuropeptide Hypocretin, previously implicated in human narcolepsy, may explai...

(University of Delaware) Scientists at the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois at Chicago have found a new way to kill liver cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth. This research could accelerate the dev...

(Colorado State University) An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 2014-15 in Flint, Mich., was likely caused by a change in the city's drinking water supply, according to a study led by Colorado State University resear...

(RAND Corporation) Several studies have shown an association between legalizing medical marijuana and lower death rates from opioids. A new study finds that link is more complex than previously described and appears to b...

(Penn State) The most economical way to kill bacteria that cause common food-borne illnesses -- mostly caused by Salmonella enterica -- is heat, but, the mechanisms that kill Salmonella at lower temperatures were not ful...

(Oregon State University) Symptoms of alcoholism make it more difficult for some people to regularly take the prescription drug naltrexone, which could help treat their disease, a researcher at Oregon State University ha...