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(Washington University School of Medicine) The drug buprenorphine is an effective treatment for opioid use disorder, but many who misuse opioids also take benzodiazepines -- drugs that treat anxiety and similar condition...

Overuse of these medicines in livestock can affect humans, too.

(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)) European Union law rules that Member States must provide fair and appropriate compensation for victims of sexual offences. In some countries, few victims receive any financial comp...

(University of Pittsburgh) Women who experience an accelerated accumulation of abdominal fat during menopause are at greater risk of heart disease, even if their weight stays steady, according to a new analysis. The stud...

(Queen Mary University of London) Attending the two most recent screening appointments before a breast cancer diagnosis protects against breast cancer death, according to a Queen Mary University of London study of over h...

(Flinders University) While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases, a major research stocktake of Australian-New Zealand waters gives new guidelines to managers of dolphin fisheries.The extensi...

(American Heart Association) The association between race and ethnicity and county-level factors of some U.S. counties may have a significant impact on cardiovascular-related death rates.In a new study analyzing 2017 hea...

(RCSI) New research shows that people diagnosed with a genetic condition, called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), are far more likely to stop smoking and therefore prevent the development of lung disease.

(McMaster University) Evolutionary forces drive a glaring gender imbalance in the occurrence of many health conditions, including autism, a team of genetics researchers has concluded.

(Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore) Professor Christiani Jeyakumar Henry, Senior Advisor of Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation, A*STAR and his team developed a glycaemi...

(University of Bern) Specialists in viral and genetic analysis, led by Swiss scientists Dr. Emma Hodcroft at the University of Bern and Prof. Christophe Dessimoz at University of Lausanne, alongside Dr. Nick Goldman at E...

(Penn State) Depression can be a common problem for teens and adolescents, and while many treatments exist, they don't always work for everyone. A new study found that feeling more informed about their health may help te...

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) The MDI Biological Laboratory will collaborate with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an office of the state Department of Health and Human Services, on a fi...

(The Lundquist Institute ) In a new paper published by Nature Communications, The Lundquist Institute (TLI) Investigator Wei Yan, MD, PhD, and his research colleagues spell out an innovative strategy that has led to the ...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) According to a new study published in Medical Care, improving hospital nurse staffing as proposed in pending legislation in New York state would likely save lives. The cost ...

(McDougall Communications) A newly-published work highlights the long-term ocular health of children wearing daily disposable soft contact lenses and reports minimal impact on physiology over six years. Its results affir...

(University of Cologne) Two scientists at the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging Research have developed a method that can determine an organism's biological age with unprecedented precision. Researchers expect new ins...

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The first proof of the origin of malignant rhabdoid tumour (MRT), a rare childhood cancer, has been discovered by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Princess Máxima Cente...

(North Carolina State University) Injecting hydrogels containing stem cell or exosome therapeutics directly into the pericardial cavity could be a less invasive, less costly, and more effective means of treating cardiac ...

(Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Targeted, efficient and with few side effects: A new method for combating periodontitis could render the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics superfluous. It was developed and t...

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) he clinical picture of COVID-19 in various target organs has been extensively studied and described, but relatively little is known about the characteristics of...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) CLEVELAND, Ohio (March 3, 2021)--The loss of estrogen after menopause is associated with rapid bone loss. A new study compared the bone health outcomes in women with primary ...