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Ontario patients and caregivers reported not enough home care to meet the need, that home care support was not in place when patients arrived home from the hospital, and that they had to advocate for themselves to get en...

Researchers have shown that the brains of young adult Romanian adoptees who were institutionalized as children are around 8.6% smaller than the brains of English adoptees who have not suffered this form of deprivation.

Scientists have identified a molecular mechanism that could reverse the genetic defect responsible for Friedreich's ataxia, a neurodegenerative disease that leaves its victims with difficulty walking, a loss of sensation...

The decommissioning of coal-fired power plants in the continental United States has reduced nearby pollution and its negative impacts on human health and crop yields, according to a new study.

For the first time, scientists identified and mapped the location of structural proteins in a pig ovary. Ongoing development of an 'ink' with these proteins will be used for 3-D printing an artificial (or bio-prosthetic)...

A breakthrough gene therapy treatment for Haemophilia A has been shown to offer long-term benefits that have already transformed the lives of 13 men in the UK.

Scientists have uncovered a link between prenatal exposure to phthalates -- a ubiquitous group of plasticizers and odor-enhancing chemicals -- and deficits in motor function in girls. Phthalates are widely used in consum...

A review article highlights the correlation between highly processed foods and increased prevalence of obesity in the United States.

Researchers have developed a way to prop up a struggling immune system to enable its fight against sepsis, a deadly condition resulting from the body's extreme reaction to infection.

Children who undergo expansive genetic sequencing may not be getting the thorough DNA analysis their parents were expecting, say experts.

New research has shown the potential for clinically available cancer treatments to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

As many as 50 per cent of women suffering from cardiac arrest are given insufficient treatment, because the heart failure was not caused by a heart attack.

An engineering team has invented a robotic device -- the Trunk-Support Trainer (TruST) -- that can be used to assist and train people with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) to sit more stably by improving their trunk control, ...

(American Heart Association) Fulminant myocarditis develops quickly and can prove fatal without early recognition and advanced medical therapy.A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association details the re...

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) A new Cedars-Sinai study reveals how memory and abnormal brain activity are linked in patients with epilepsy who often report problems with memory. The data show that abnormal electrical pul...

(American Geriatrics Society) In their analysis of blood pressure data, researchers focused on people aged 80 and older who had reported heart disease events (such as heart attacks or strokes), changes in kidney function...

(SUNY Downstate Health Science University) A study led by researchers from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and Oregon Health & Science University, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, showed that, d...

(Queen Mary University of London) A breakthrough gene therapy treatment for Haemophilia A has been shown to offer long-term benefits that have already transformed the lives of 13 men in the UK.

(University of Oxford) This is the first time a clock gene has been found to affect resistance to bacterial pneumonia, a fatal disease responsible for 5% of all deaths in the UK each year.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) A UCLA-led study revealed a new way to predict which patients with 'stable' heart failure -- those who have heart injury but do not require hospitalization -- have...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Not only is excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) associated with increased long-term maternal weight, but a new study has shown that there is a cumulative effect of ex...

(Rutgers University) Families of children with autism face high physical, mental and emotional burdens, are sometimes ridiculed and even accused of child abuse, according to a Rutgers study.