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Adolescents with higher levels of physical activity performed better in school during transition from primary school to lower secondary school than their physically inactive peers.

Scientists have shown for the first time a link between two types of heart problems and one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics.

Small gestures of kindness by employers can have big impacts on employees' health and work performance, according to an international team of researchers. The team specifically examined the effects of employers enhancing...

A research team has found that a compound molecule used for drug delivery of insulin could be used to treat glioblastoma, an aggressive, usually fatal form of brain cancer.

Researchers say that measuring how quickly a person's pupil dilates while they are taking cognitive tests may be a low-cost, low-invasive method to aid in screening individuals at increased genetic risk for AD before cog...

Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf Coast beaches for decades, according to a new study by ecologists at Florida State Uni...

New research reveals the mechanism that allows breastfeeding babies to absorb large amounts of calcium and build healthy bones -- a discovery that could lead to treatment for osteoporosis and other bone diseases later in...

Until now, there's never been a tool that could determine how long it will take a patient to heal from a tibial fracture. But researchers have found that a virtual mechanical test can do just that.

Scientists have provided concrete evidence linking the specific immune responses in HIV-negative babies to the HIV-positive status of their mothers.

Researchers have discovered that a cell adhesion protein, E-cadherin, allows breast cancer cells to survive as they travel through the body and form new tumors, a process termed metastasis. Their conclusions, obtained th...

Despite having lived about 300,000 years ago, the oldest ancestor of all members of our species had a surprisingly modern skull -- as suggested by a new model. After comparing the virtually rendered skull to five African...

Each year more than 260,000 older Americans are hospitalized for hip fractures, a debilitating injury that can severely and permanently impact mobility. Researchers studied two types of home-based interventions and disco...

(Credit: shepele4ek2304/Shutterstock) Yes, physical activity is good for your health, but sometimes - OK, maybe a lot - you just don't want to. How do you get yourself up and going when inspiration lags? According to a n...

Little is known about the proteins and cellular pathways that lead to the formation of the human heart or the roles various proteins and pathways might play in cardiac disease. Now, scientists have found that unique sets...

A new and simple blood test has been found to efficiently and accurately detect the presence of aggressive prostate cancer, according to new research.

Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or transform to relocate from one area to monitor another within our bodies. A ...

Researchers have shown a link between the diet of Roman Britons and their mortality rates for the first time, overturning a previously-held belief about the quality of the Roman diet.

By combing through the entire genetic sequences of a person with a lung scarring disease and 13 of the person's relatives, researchers say they have found a coding error in a single gene that is likely responsible for a ...

Bloodstream infections acquired in UK Intensive Care Units (ICUs) reduced by 80% between 2007 and 2012, according to new research.

Enteroviral infections are common viral infections with usually rather few symptoms and also believed to be linked to the onset of type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a disorder in which the pancreatic insulin-producing ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel technology that could sensitively and accurately detect and classify cancer cells, as well as determine the disease aggressiveness from the least invasive biopsies. With this n...

Researchers say their survey of 1,000 randomly selected PCPs revealed significant gaps in the group's overall knowledge of risk factors, diagnostic criteria and recommended management/prevention practices for prediabetes...