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As the climate warms, seas will rise, storms will proliferate and cities will bake. But, in addition to the marquee issues global warming causes, there will likely be a host of tangential issues, many of which we may not...

News A new online health calculator can help people determine their risk of heart disease, as well as their heart age, accounting for factors such as ethnicity, sense of belonging and education, as well as health status ...

News Researchers have created a stretchy patch that, applied directly to the skin, wicks up sweat and assesses how much cortisol a person is producing. This can provide early detection of various diseases and evaluation ...

News Ultrasound waves applied to the brain improved cognitive dysfunction in mice with conditions like dementia. The LIPUS therapy is a non-invasive physiotherapy that could apply to high-risk elderly patients without th...

News Researchers are hoping to genetically engineer house plants to serve as subtle alarms that something is amiss in our home and office environments. This is not the first time that plants have been proposed as biosens...

News "DeepLesion: Automated mining of large-scale lesion annotations and universal lesion detection with deep learning," - announced the open availability of the largest CT lesion-image database accessible to the public....

(University of Stirling) Experts from the University of Stirling have made a breakthrough in understanding how people respond to lifestyle treatment for preventing Type 2 diabetes.

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Children of mothers with type 1 diabetes are at significantly higher risk of being overweight and of exhibiting insulin resistance. This was ...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center finds many breast cancer patients are concerned about the financial impact of their diagnosis ...

(University of Virginia Health System) New research explains why obesity causes harmful inflammation that can lead to diabetes, clogged arteries and other health problems. Doctors may be able to use this knowledge to bat...

(Jackson Laboratory) The MODEL-AD Center, an ambitious project to develop and distribute precise mouse models of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), has released eight new models carrying genetic mutations found in pati...

(Boston Medical Center) Boston Medical Center has shown that testing for the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) outside the typical high-risk population can be successfully implemented in an emergency department setting.

(Ruhr-University Bochum) While in search of the causes of allergies and asthma, a chance discovery has yielded new clues: researchers led by Dr Marcus Peters have ascertained that the enzyme guanylate cyclase in cells la...

(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) FIND and the DNDi will partner to generate evidence that will support policy change and scale up of hepatitis C diagnosis and treatment. This work, announced at the AIDS 2018 con...

(Rockefeller University) Scientists find that certain neurons release nitric oxide onto nearby blood vessels, and potentially use this mechanism to control awareness in the brain.

(Wiley) In addition to facing new concerns about their health, individuals who are diagnosed with cancer often worry about the financial burdens of treatment. A new study indicates that many patients feel that such 'fina...

(Lancaster University) Long-term use of either cannabis or cannabis-based drugs impairs memory say researchers.The study has implications for both recreational users and people who use the drug to combat epilepsy, multip...

(University of California - Davis) We know instinctively that our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are highly familiar with a particular task, like cooking for example, learning a new recipe is much easier than ...

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) HIV diagnosis is the first of many steps in the path to global disease control. However, in Southern Mozambique, more than half of people diagnosed with HIV do not initi...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The National Institute on Aging Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease Data Storage Site will begin making large-scale DNA sequence data available to investigators. The goal is to...

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) How close is medicine to an anti-aging pill? Can anti-aging therapies delay the onset of age-related degenerative diseases? What lifestyle choices can individuals make to prolo...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) Canada's provincial governments should mandate patient access to their electronic medical records, argue authors of a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).