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Unless you're one of the Stark kids from "Game of Thrones," a wolf probably isn't a great choice for a pet. But tens of thousands of years ago, wolves started down the path of domestication and ended up becoming "man's b...

Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier than Einstein perceived.

Rowdy fans stomping and roaring when the Seattle Seahawks scored a touchdown last night (Dec. 2) shook the football stadium so hard that a nearby seismic monitor registered an "earthquake."

From 2000 to 2010, the presence of a minority faculty development program at US medical schools was not associated with greater underrepresented minority faculty representation, recruitment, or promotion, according to a ...

Among internal medicine and nurse practitioner trainees, simulation-based communication skills training compared with usual education did not improve quality of communication about end-of-life care or quality of end-of-l...

Implementation of a multifaceted program to improve patient handoffs (change in staff caring for a patient) among physicians-in-training residents at a children's hospital was associated with a reduction in medical error...

Among fourth-year medical students completing an 8-week obstetrics/gynecology clinical rotation, there was a positive association between attendance at clinical and tutorial-based activities and overall examination score...

Among anesthesiology residents entering primary training from 1975 to 2009, 0.86 percent had a confirmed substance use disorder during training, with the incidence of this disorder increasing over the study period and th...

A new article was recently published examining ways to reduce acute care costs without sacrificing the quality of care provided.

Scientists have identified an enzyme that can halt or possibly even reverse the build-up of toxic protein fragments known as plaques in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease.

A seemingly desolate cave system in southern Arizona actually plays host to a surprisingly diverse array of microbes that survive underground despite the extreme dearth of light and nutrients, according to a new study.

In a public outreach effort, scientists at Columbia University have banded together to create a 2014 Climate Model wall calendar, in which they dress up and smile for the camera and help show the public that they are nor...

In an effort to humanize climate scientists and engage the public with climate change research, Columbia scientists have banded together to model in the first ever Climate Model wall calendar.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary noted an increased interest in the word "science" this year and crowned the word as its 2013 Word of the Year.

Infectious disease researchers have identified a novel mechanism wherein HIV-1 may facilitate its own transmission by usurping the antibody response directed against itself. These results have important implications for ...

For some, the disease multiple sclerosis (MS) attacks its victims slowly over a period of years. For others, it strikes in fits and starts. But all patients share one thing: the disease had long been present in their ner...

People who identified their medication by shape, size or color instead of name had poorer adherence and an increased risk of hospitalization, finds a recent study.

After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered wheelchair, which he controls with a sip-and-puff system. Users sip or puff air into a ...

It's on many women's (and men's) holiday wish lists: a male birth control pill that can be flipped on and off like a light switch when needed. According to researchers in Australia and Britain, scientists are one step cl...

People who carry a high-risk gene for Alzheimer's disease show changes in their brains beginning in childhood, decades before the illness appears, new research suggests.

Israeli scientists have found a drug that holds promise for a range of brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, but you may want to hold your hopes for a few years or so.

Leading cardiologists have contributed to the development of a new classification system called MOGE(S) for cardiomyopathies, the diseases of the heart muscle which can lead to heart enlargement and heart failure.