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(UT Southwestern Medical Center) The amount of calcified plaque in the heart's arteries is a better predictor of future heart attacks than of strokes, with similar findings across sex and racial groups, according to new ...

(National Institute for Health Research) Researchers have uncovered how the immune system is altered in a rare COVID-19 related illness in children referred to as paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS-TS).

According to paleo diet literature, eating like our hunter-gatherer ancestors will help people lose weight and avoid diseases. But is this sound nutritional advice?

(Elsevier) A new study reports that the risk of being involved in car crashes increases for those diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child ...

(Duke University) If you've ever been woken up before sunrise by the chirping of birds outside your window, you may have wondered: why do birds sing so loud, so early in the morning? The cacophony is mostly males, whose ...

(Compuscript Ltd) Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Management during COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences and Strategies Used by a Singapore Breast Surgical Unit a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. In this co...

(University of Surrey) Psychosocial needs of people affected by cancer are not being adequately met due to the disruption in services caused by Covid-19, a new report in the journal Psycho-Oncology reports.

(University of Illinois at Chicago) With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global warming, it is no surprise that there has been an upward trend in hospital visits and admi...

(DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Stanford and SLAC scientists studying the varicella zoster virus found that an antibody that blocks infection doesn't work exactly as they'd thought.

(Elsevier) Fluid milk consumption among children is vital, as adequate consumption of dairy products, especially during childhood, has beneficial health outcomes later in life. These benefits include reduced risk of oste...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Every year, 150 to 300 children in the United States are diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs), aggressive and lethal tumors that grow deep...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Brazilian researchers used genetic engineering to develop a low-cost platform for the production of enzymes that break down sugarcane trash and bagasse for conversi...

(Dartmouth College) Information about COVID-19 offered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House, and state health departments failed to meet recommendations for communicating with the public.

(University of Illinois at Chicago) The results of an online questionnaire of 609 breast cancer survivors in the US suggest that nearly half of patients experienced delays in care during the early weeks of the COVID-19 p...

(Deutsches Zentrum fuer Diabetesforschung DZD) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common chronic liver disease in the world, with sometimes life-threatening consequences. A high-protein, calorie-reduced diet c...

(University of Huddersfield) Huddersfield researchers publish study that found that dexamethasone could reduce death rates in hospitalized COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic.

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) New research from the CHILD Cohort Study has shed light on the influence of vitamin D supplementation on a baby's developing gut microbiome. The study, published in...

(eLife ) Low levels of HDL cholesterol, the so-called 'good' cholesterol, are the most common lipid disorder in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, a new meta-analysis published in eLife shows.

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) When addressing infants, human adults tend to change the speed, pitch and "color" of their voice. This "baby talk" is known to facilitate language learning. According to new rese...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Opioid use among women trying to conceive may be associated with a lower chance of pregnancy, suggests a National Institutes of Health...

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) Researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, have discovered the Hawaiian tiger cowrie is a voracious predator of sponges. Among preferred spon...

(Forschungsverbund Berlin) On August 18, 2020 the international team of scientists and conservationists harvested ten eggs from the last remaining two individuals, Najin and Fatu, in the third-ever ovum pickup procedure ...