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(University of Arizona Health Sciences) Nighttime snacking and junk food cravings may contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors and represent a potential link between poor sleep and obesity, according to a study by Univer...

Walking and chewing gum, at various points in this nation's history, has served as a benchmark to gauge one's competence as a leader. Democratic vice presidential-nominee John Edwards in 2004 assured Americans that a pre...

News Researchers at the Center for Extreme Bionics at the MIT Media Lab have invented a new neural interface and communication paradigm that is able to send movement commands from the central nervous system to a robotic ...

Article Alzheimer's and dementia related diseases have significant, noticeable effects on patients, but a recent report examined caregivers and their own modifications for a healthy lifestyle, according to Business Wire....

Videos Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria... Contributed Author: UC San Diego News Topics: STEM

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(Kessler Foundation) Job gains continued for Americans with disabilities in May, although fewer were looking for work, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment - Monthly Update (nTIDE).

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) Patient preferences for diagnostic testing differed significantly across levels of risk, benefit, and cost of diagnostic testing, but cost was the strongest and most consistent f...

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Researchers at Brazil's largest producer of antivenoms report a structural analysis of glycans modifying venom proteins in several species of lancehead viper. The...

(European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) Giving radiation therapy to the lymph nodes located behind the breast bone and above the collar bone to patients with early stage breast cancer improves overal...

(Duke University) A Duke study of an iPhone app to screen young children for signs of autism has found the app easy to use, welcomed by caregivers and good at producing reliable scientific data. The app first administers...

(The Hastings Center) Genetic privacy, questions about medical artificial intelligence, and more in the May-June 2018 issue.

(MediaSource) More than half of high school baseball pitchers report experiencing pain in their throwing arm during the season. To better understand the cause of these injuries, researchers at The Ohio State University W...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Shinjae Chung, Ph.D. has been named a recipient of a 2017 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award, to study the molecular basis of remedying sleep disturbances in aut...

(University of California - San Diego) Reporting results from a first-in-human phase I clinical trial, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that treatment with cirmtuzumab, an e...

(Children's National Health System) Psychiatric disorders, a common comorbidity of severe obesity, especially for youth, should not disqualify an adolescent with severe obesity from bariatric surgery. According to a fort...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) The energy metabolism of the body's so-called brown fat cells is controlled by the fat molecule cardiolipin, researchers from the University of Copenh...

(Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery) Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery establishes partnership with key stakeholder groups to develop quality measures for stroke. This will enable more stroke patients to survive...

(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.

(Thomas Jefferson University) Scientists from the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) at Jefferson Health will be presenting research and leading discussions on various topics, including metastatic uveal melanoma, genetic...

(Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have visualized for the first time how the protein SOCS1 'switches off' cell signalling to dampen immune responses and block cancer growth.The...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) A large group of people with obesity have a genetic mutation that is causing their obesity. Common treatments for obesity only benefit these people to...