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A research team has succeeded in elucidating how the endocannabinoid system controls food intake through its effects on the perception of smells.

With a nod to 3rd century Chinese woodblock printing and children's rubber stamp toys, researchers have developed a way to print living cells onto any surface, in virtually any shape. Unlike recent, similar work using in...

Experts have devised an effective, replicable program using trained lay Community Health Worker (CHWs) to improve a range of outcomes among patients at high risk for poor post-hospital outcomes. In this model, CHWs hired...

Pediatric obesity is currently an epidemic, with the prevalence having quadruped over the last 25 years. Among other complications, obese children who sustain a supracondylar humeral (above the elbow) fracture can be exp...

A new combination MRI-ultrasound imaging system can result in fewer biopsies and better treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. The technology fuses MRI images with ultrasound to create a detailed, three-dimens...

Researchers have found a biological weakness in the workings of the most commonly mutated gene involved in human cancers, known as mutant K-Ras, which they say can be exploited by drug chemotherapies to thwart tumor grow...

Scientists have identified a signature immune response that might help doctors identify which newly diagnosed influenza patients are most likely to develop severe symptoms and suffer poor outcomes. The findings also help...

The Basis Carbon Steel Edition is the latest version of the Basis fitness tracker, with several design changes from the original. But is newer necessarily better? I tested the Carbon Steel to find out.

Young girls with mental illness are three times more likely to become teenage parents than those without a major mental illness, according to a first-of-its-kind study.

A screening program for abdominal aortic aneurysms, integrated into an electronic health record, dramatically reduced the number of unscreened at-risk men by more than 50 percent within 15 months, according to a Kaiser P...

Researchers warned in a paper published today that not enough attention has been given to the unique aspect of soccer -- the purposeful use of the head to control the ball -- and the long-term consequences of repetitive ...

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General's landmark report on smoking, the Brown School's Center for Public Health Systems Science, in partnership with the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, has pub...

Pancreatic stellate cells, which normally aid tissue repair, unwittingly help pancreatic cancer grow and spread in a method of "cell hijack" only seen before in brain and breast cancer, according to new research.

A large scale randomized control trial shows Schema Therapy to be significantly more effective than two major alternative approaches to the treatment of a broad range of personality disorders. Schema Therapy resulted in ...

A new global survey documents how dental care in the school environment is helping to assure a healthy life and social equity -- even in developing countries. But there are still major challenges to overcome worldwide.

Detailed structural and functional 'maps' of the human kidney made using advanced scanning technology are to be developed by scientists, in hopes that the effort advances treatment for those suffering from chronic kidney...

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a previously unrecognized tactic to outwit antiviral responses and sustain a long-term infection. It also turns out that some people are genetically equipped with a strong countermeasure t...

Many people suffer from chronic inflammation because their immune systems overreact to 'self' tissue. Scientists believe that a small molecule known as Interleukin 21 is a promising therapeutic target in such cases.

Nanomotors have been controlled inside living cells for the first time, report a team of chemists and engineers. The scientists placed tiny rocket-shaped synthetic motors inside live human cells, propelled them with ultr...

Retiring from your career doesn't mean you have to drop out of the workforce. Here are eight great part-time jobs for retired workers who want to stay busy and make a little extra money.

A review of the TomTom Multi-Sport GPS Watch, a sports watch billed as an easy way for active individuals to track their exercise goals, progress and training.

A Danish zoo shot one of its giraffes as it bent down to eat some bread, then butchered its carcass and fed it to lions -- all in the name of combating inbreeding. But while the issues cited by the zoo are very real, man...