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An explosion of strange new narcotics is hitting the streets, as clandestine chemists rush to produce drugs that exist outside the law. One United Nations report tallied 644 new drugs discovered across 102 countries and ...

(University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Otolaryngology received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund research rel...

(eLife ) Scientists have pinpointed a key gene that controls segmentation during spider development, which reveals a further similarity to the control of segmentation in insects, a study in eLife reports.

(Arizona State University) Researchers at Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic have found that at least one type of blue clay may help fight disease-causing bacteria in wounds, including antibiotic-resistant bact...

(Tomsk Polytechnic University) TPU researchers develop completely new catalytic methods for synthesizing oxo-derivatives of betulin, which is an organic substance contained in the birch bark. In the age of green chemistr...

(American Geriatrics Society) In a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, researchers looked into the use of antipsychotic medications in older adults following heart surgery.

(American College of Emergency Physicians) Nearly six percent of urinary tract infections analyzed by a California emergency department were caused by drug-resistant bacteria in a one-year study period, according to new ...

(Mayo Clinic) The use of mud or wet clay as a topical skin treatment or a poultice is a common practice in some cultures and the concept of using mud as medicine goes back to earliest times. Now Mayo Clinic researchers a...

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Sweating up a storm gardening? This is what your brain might be doing: Reasonably customary dehydration led to shape changes inside the brains of test persons in a new study. Neuronal ac...

(European Society of Cardiology) Journalists are invited to follow the ESC Congress 2018 press programme for tips on the hottest research in cardiology this year. Journalists on site will receive embargoed material.

(University of Pennsylvania) A 12-hour theory-based, culturally adapted educational program presented in sixth-grade classrooms in South Africa significantly reduced the chances that the students would force sex on someo...

(The Endocrine Society) The Endocrine Society has selected five new recipients for its Early Investigators Awards.

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) The sudden loss of Saudi medical trainees who must leave Canada in the next two weeks will negatively affect patient care, which should serve as a wake-up call to governments to inc...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has renewed a grant shared by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the University of Ca...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) How do muscle cells prepare for the particular metabolic challenges of the day? Scientists at Helmholtz Zentrum München and Ludwig-Maximilia...

(University of Nottingham) Children rely more on auditory information. This means they are less susceptible to illusions in which vision changes sound. Conversely, adults are more likely to be influenced by what they see...

(Boston Medical Center) Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have created a near real-time surveillance method to identify communities experiencing a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa using...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) Studying the effects of contraceptive medications on feral cat populations is difficult, but relying on standard laboratory settings i...

(Kaiser Permanente) Adolescents who receive recommended vaccinations, including for human papillomavirus, have no increased risk of primary ovarian insufficiency, also known as premature menopause, according to a Kaiser ...

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) The study also shows that residential proximity to agricultural areas is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (UAB) have received renewed grant funding from th...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) The National Institutes of Health has awarded Dr. Jessica Merlin of Pitt a five-year grant totaling more than $3 million for the first full-scale trial of behavio...