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From freezing showers to ingesting prickly pear to smoking joints, everyone has a home remedy for alcohol's notorious afterglow: the hangover. Mongolian men swear by pickled sheep eyes, ancient Egyptians wore necklaces o...

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Article Researchers at the University of Georgia's College of Engineering have created a coating for medical devices that could help prevent infections. The technology is known as LINOREL, liquid-infusing nitric oxide-re...

News Researchers have shown for the first time that a form of artificial intelligence or machine learning known as a deep learning convolutional neural network (CNN) is better than experienced dermatologists at detecting...

News Researchers announced that they have developed a "quick and robust" blood test that can detect liver damage before symptoms appear, offering what they hope is a significant advance in early detection of liver diseas...

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(Tokyo Institute of Technology) Cell biologists have deepened understanding of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases. The findings could open up new treatment approaches for disorders including Alzheimer's ...

(University of Maryland) Having an abortion does not increase a woman's risk for depression, according to a new University of Maryland School of Public Health-led study of nearly 400,000 women. Previous research has foun...

(University of Eastern Finland) For middle-aged men, eating higher amounts of protein was associated with a slightly elevated risk for heart failure than those who ate less protein, according to new research from the Uni...

(University of Surrey) Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased risk of depression, a new study in the journal Sci...

(ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group) NCI-MATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice), the largest precision medicine trial of its kind, achieves a milestone with the release of results from three treatment arms of the tr...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Francisella tularensis is the bacterium that causes tularemia, a life-threatening disease spread to humans via contact with an infected animal or through mosqui...

(University of Leeds) A new clinical trial from the University of Leeds is testing omega-3 capsules in patients who have bowel cancer which has spread to the liver, to see if it can stop the cancer returning after surger...

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) A new review study published in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases finds that vegetarian, especially vegan diets, are associated with better cardiovascular health.

(Penn State) At the least, wastewater from oil and gas drilling should be treated in a waste treatment facility before it is used on dirt roads to suppress dust or deice roads. At the best, affordable, nontoxic dust supp...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) The use of high-fiber feed ingredients in swine diets is on the rise due to their wide availability and relatively low cost. However, ...

(Elsevier) Biological Psychiatry has published a new study revising the outdated estimates of the prevalence of eating disorders in the United States. The new estimates were based on a nationally representative sample of...

(Indiana University) Researchers from three universities have found that extreme price competition in the generic pharmaceutical market -- designed to make medications more affordable -- may be putting more patients at s...

(Rutgers University) A Rutgers study shows how the hand-held device RETeval may prove to be a more accessible way to diagnose schizophrenia, predict relapse and symptom severity, and assess treatment effectiveness.

(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a computer model that forecasts the changes that occur within tumors as they develop.

(North Carolina State University) A new technique helps researchers determine food eaten by microbes.

(American Chemical Society) At a cost of thousands of dollars per pound, truffles are an expensive food. The fungi are prized for their distinctive aroma, and many foods claim truffles or their aromas as ingredients. But...