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Construction workers are more likely to use drugs than workers in other professions, finds a new study.

A doctor is using an elegant new approach to mapping brain activity to shed light on what happens during seizures in newborns that can lead to behavioral issues and learning disabilities much later.

When enteric glial cells are exposed to secretions from colon tumors, the glial cells convert into promoters of tumor growth. The work demonstrates enteric glial cells' importance in the tumor microenvironment and could ...

Study recommends enhanced screening for drug-resistant E. coli in capsulized fecal transplants.

Researchers wanted to understand what forces drive the composition and ecology of microbes that live in people's guts. The human gut microbiome is critical to aspects of health and disease. The researchers found that sev...

Multitasking makes adolescents feel both more positively and more negatively about the main task they're trying to accomplish, a new study finds. But the study -- which examined young people's actual multitasking behavio...

Scientists have used a model to cap surgeon shifts at 12 hours for covering surgical emergencies, and a study has shown that it led to shorter hospital stays and lower overall costs for patients with acute appendicitis.

Researchers analyzed patterns of movement among elderly study participants and found that irregular, spontaneous fluctuations could predict a person's risk of frailty, disability and death years later.

Exposing children to small amounts of peanuts helps treat the symptoms of allergic reactions, but doesn't cure them. (Credit: PR Image Factory/Shutterstock) New research points to a potential wrinkle in a promising treat...

Cumulative environmental exposures affect rural and urban populations differently when it comes to diabetes risk. Multiple environmental factors were associated with a greater risk for diabetes in rural and sparsely popu...

Infection biologists have found out how the LIPP protein helps Chlamydia to infect human cells. These insights could provide the basis for prevention of chlamydial infections.

Scientists suggest that gut bacteria and its interactions with immune cells and metabolic organs, including fat tissue, play a key role in childhood obesity.

Researchers report that a drug used in the treatment of HIV also suppresses Zika virus infection. In cell and animal models, they show that rilpivirine stops Zika virus by targeting enzymes that both HIV and Zika virus d...

Scientists are deciphering the contents of exosomes that cancer cells release. Studying the information exosomes contain and how they influence other cells may suggest new targets for cancer immunotherapy.

Imagine a runner who doesn't need to carry a stopwatch or cell phone to check her time: She could just gaze at the glowing stopwatch display on the back of her hand. Such human-machine interfaces are no longer science fi...

New research shows for the first time that patients with mood and anxiety disorders share the same abnormalities in regions of the brain involved in emotional and cognitive control.

Researchers have shown for the first time how a compound found only in avocados can inhibit cellular processes in the pancreas that normally lead to diabetes.

High levels of traffic exhaust at one's residence increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a new study. The study suggests that it is mainly black carbon from traffic exhaust that inc...

Severe infections during pregnancy have been connected to a range of psychiatric disorders by different studies in humans and animals. Now, researchers have shown in mice how the infections affect neuronal development as...

Scientists have developed a new therapeutic concept for the treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. It represents a gene therapy capable of suppressing seizures at their site of origin on demand. Having been shown to be eff...

A simple saliva test to detect if someone has recently taken the street drug ''spice'' has been developed.

In neurodegenerative disease ALS, proteins called TDP-43 aggregate in patient tissues. A team led by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory found that in ALS, TDP-43 proteins are dysfunctional, causing de-silencing...