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(American Academy of Family Physicians) Low-dose CT screening methods may prevent one death per 250 at-risk adults screened, according to a meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled clinical trials of lung cancer scre...

Disgusting though they may be, phlegm and mucus are nothing to sneeze at. Here's what their appearance can tell you about your health.

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Work stress and burnout are mutually reinforcing; surprisingly, the effect of work stress on burnout is much smaller than the effect of burnout on work stress.

(University of California - Riverside) A new UC Riverside study shows flame retardants found in nearly every American home cause mice to give birth to offspring that become diabetic.

(Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) Over the next six years, research groups at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Tel Aviv University will study how invasive fungal pathogens are able to evade treatments an...

(RAND Corporation) An estimated 53 million family members and friends provide care assistance to loved ones in the United States, yet family caregivers face significant barriers coordinating their efforts with the formal...

(Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences) Being able to feel empathy and to take in the other person's perspective are two abilities through which we understand what is going on in the other's mind. B...

(University of Queensland) Scientists at The University of Queensland used zebrafish that carry the same genetic mutations as humans with Fragile X syndrome and autism, and discovered the neural networks and pathways tha...

(Columbia University Irving Medical Center) Columbia researchers have identified a gene signature in localized prostate cancer that predicts the cancer's odds of spreading and its response to a common treatment for advan...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) In the Netherlands, whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks on 16 mink farms has revealed virus transmission between human to mink, as well as from mink to hu...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Use of thyroid hormone to boost hepatocyte proliferation enhanced the efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene correction in the mouse liver. This dietary induction of hep...

(University of Chicago Press Journals) A new study conducted at the University of New South Wales and published in the November/December 2020 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology sheds light on a possible conne...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) Khanh Do, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, is a member of the first group chosen by the National Institutes of He...

(Monash University) A new study by Monash University has found that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been linked to an increased risk of dementia.

(University of Exeter) Scientists have developed an optical elastography technique that could revolutionise the accuracy and ease to which health professionals can detect biomechanical alterations of cells and tissues.

(American Academy of Family Physicians) Annals of Family Medicine is a peer-reviewed, indexed research journal that provides a cross-disciplinary forum for new, evidence-based information affecting the primary care disci...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Physician-researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will present findings about cardiac care for cancer patients and survivors at t...

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) A University of Arizona Health Sciences clinical trial to study safety and effectiveness of a personalized cancer vaccine combined with immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab will expand...

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) Most women are receiving fewer than half the services recommended during their comprehensive postpartum medical checkup, according to a study by University of Massachusetts Amherst r...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) When complications due to diabetes, asthma, urinary tract infections, high blood pressure and other common conditions lead patients to visit the ER, researchers and health care qua...

(IOS Press) Dementia is associated with an impaired self-perception with potentially harmful consequences for health status and clinical risk classification in this patient group with an extraordinary high risk of fallin...

(American Academy of Family Physicians) After decades of underrepresentation in medicine, women are now entering many specialties in the United States, including family medicine, at higher rates than men. Despite the ris...