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(Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center) $5.3 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to support Cincinnati Children's research into the relationship between air pollutio...

(University of Portsmouth) New research has found that shrimp like creatures on the South Coast of England have 70 per cent less sperm than less polluted locations elsewhere in the world. The research also discovered tha...

(Radboud University Medical Center) They can hear well up to about forty years old, but then suddenly deafness strikes people with DFNA9. The cells of the inner ear can no longer reverse the damage caused by a genetic de...

(SAGE) [LAKEWOOD, CO; BRIDGEWATER, NJ; March 2, 2021] Two of the world's leading veterinary organizations are proud to announce updated recommendations in the 2021 AAHA/AAFP Feline Life Stage Guidelines. The American Ani...

(American Osteopathic Association) Kids need our help and we're not sounding the alarm loud enough, says Dr. Jay Shubrook, lead author of a new paper published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. He suggests physicia...

(Leibniz-Institut für Lebensmittel-Systembiologie an der TU München) At least in cell-based test systems, the plant compound resveratrol has anti-inflammatory properties. A recent collaborative study by the Leibniz Ins...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides evidence that COVID-19 patients' heart damage is caused by the virus invading and replicating ins...

(University of California - Santa Barbara) There's more to taste than flavor. Let ice cream melt, and the next time you take it out of the freezer you'll find its texture icy instead of the smooth, creamy confection you'...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found that children with multisystem inflammatory...

(eLife ) Disruptions in the circadian rhythms in lung cells may explain why adults who survived premature birth are often more at risk of severe influenza infections, suggests a study in mice published today in eLife.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) The liver has a rare superpower among body organs - the ability to regenerate. It also keeps up its metabolic and toxin-removing work while regenerating, thanks t...

(FAIR Health) In March and April 2020, mental health claim lines for individuals aged 13-18, as a percentage of all medical claim lines, approximately doubled over the same months in the previous year. At the height of t...

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego scientists have created new brain maps featuring unprecedented detail. The insights provided by the new maps are helping answer questions about blood supply and how mor...

(West Virginia University) In a report published in California Law Review, Professor Valarie Blake and students Ashley Stephens and Amy Post examined whether gender identity and sexual orientation should be included in h...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at UC San Diego Health see a possible way to detect heart disease through the eye.

(University of Reading) Consumption of a high fat diet may be activating a response in the heart that is causing destructive growth and lead to greater risk of heart attacks, according to new research.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) If you're looking for an indoor space with a low level of particulate air pollution, a commercial airliner flying at cruising altitude may be your best option. A newly reported study of ...

(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) An analysis of law enforcement seizures of illegal drugs in five key regions of the United States revealed a rise in methamphetamine and marijuana confiscations during the COVID-19 ...

(Northwestern University) Paraprofessionals generated similar reductions in depressive symptoms as mental health professionals when delivering a group-based cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention to pregnant women. Th...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Eighty percent of Americans over 50 say their primary care doctor hasn't asked about their hearing in the past two years, and nearly as many - 77% -- haven't had their hearing...

(Dartmouth College) A large proportion of the benefit that a person gets from taking a real drug or receiving a treatment to alleviate pain is due to an individual's mindset, not to the drug itself. Understanding the neu...

(Oxford University Press USA) A new paper in Oxford Open Materials Science, published by Oxford University Press, presents low cost modifications to existing N95 masks that prolongs their effectiveness and improves their...