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(Boston Medical Center) A new study, published in Pediatrics, indicates that the initiative yielded positive results on improving rates of prenatal human milk education, early milk expression and skin to skin care among ...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Patients of surgeons with higher numbers of reports from co-workers about unprofessional behavior are significantly more likely to experience complications during or after their ope...

(Credit: SewCream/Shutterstock) When it comes to medical diagnoses, Alzheimer's is a grim one. Those who develop the disease, which causes ever-worsening memory and behavioral problems, don't have many treatment options....

(Cleveland Clinic) Cleveland Clinic has successfully performed its first in utero fetal surgery to repair a spina bifida birth defect in a nearly 23-week-old fetus.

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) An international research consortium mapped the global distribution of tree-root symbioses with fungi and bacteria that are vital to forest ecosystems. The study wa...

(University of Washington) A new paper examines the rarely explored coral reefs in deep water, where less than 1% of light from the surface makes it through. The research identifies how these corals are able to survive i...

(The Francis Crick Institute) A type of immune cell that contributes to inflammatory bowel disease exists in two forms, 'good' and 'bad.' A new Crick-led study in Immunity has characterized these distinct populations, wh...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Around 3,500 oncology professionals and researchers from around the world will learn about the latest advances in the field at the 21st ESMO World Congress on Gastrointestinal Canc...

(Far Eastern Federal University) According to ecotoxicologist from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), from the 90s and during 2000s in the tissues of Russian Far Eastern mussels the concentration of organochlorine pe...

(Chalmers University of Technology) If the fatty fish we eat were free of environmental pollutants, it would reduce our risk of developing type 2 diabetes. However, the pollutants in the fish have the opposite effect and...

(University of Eastern Finland) Postural sway is an independent risk factor for bone fractures in postmenopausal women, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. Wome...

(Northwestern University) In this first federally funded US cohort to study millennials, scientists will capture baseline lung health measurements of 4,000 healthy adults between the ages of 25 to 35 to identify an ideal...

(University of California - Berkeley Haas School of Business) A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain's dopamine-producing reward system in the sam...

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Researchers from the UAB and the IMIM published in Scientific Reports the first evidence in a non-human species, the domestic dog, of a relation between joint hypermobility and excitab...

(Kazan Federal University) The prosthetics technology is based on potato and corn materials which serve as 'food' for the replaced tissues and can be slowly absorbed by the patient's own tissue. If the trials are success...

(National Institute for Health and Welfare) According to the internationally most extensive population study concerning the health of asylum seekers, up to 40% of the adults who have sought asylum in Finland told that th...

(Kanazawa University) Researchers from Kanazawa University on the development of a technique to closely track a specific protein on the surfaces of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in cells. Their findings are published in Bio...

(University of Bath) Researchers hope that the findings could help develop new ways to train people with hoarding difficulties to discard clutter.

(University of California - Davis Health) A UC Davis study of nine emergency departments and urgent care centers in California and Colorado found educating physicians and patients about safe antibiotic use can cut overus...

(Leopoldina) The National Academies of Sciences and Medicine from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and the United States of America have joined forces to issue an urgent call to action on harmful air pollution. They are ca...

(Estonian Research Council) The HIV infection rate in Estonia has been around 200 new cases each year, which is one of the highest incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants in Europe. New doctoral thesis included 345 peopl...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Researchers have developed a way to measure the impact of living with multiple chronic illnesses - a situation called multimorbidity. Among their first findings: those with hi...