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Overconsumption of a Western diet high in fats and refined sugars has contributed to a global increase in obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Obese and diabetic premenopausal women are more at risk of developing heart disease -...

(National Institute of Food and Agriculture ) The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced up to $6 million in available funding for research to support the ...

For decades, aspirin has been widely used to reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems. Now, a team of researchers has found that aspirin may provide little or no benefit for certain patients who have plaque buildup in ...

Scientists provide evidence of direct cross-regulatory feedback, or cross-talk, between Nanog and Hox genes.

Increased levels of a micro-RNA could have a protective effect that explains why identical stressors trigger seizures in some people but not in others.

After reviewing nearly 3.7 million patient records, researchers have shown that newly diagnosed cancer patients are having to wait longer to begin treatment, a delay that is associated with a substantially increased risk...

A team of psychologists wanted to better understand if specific aspects of the family environment following a separation better predicted children's long-term health outcomes. They found that adults whose parents separat...

A new battery-less pacemaker can be implanted directly into a patient's heart.

Almost 1 in 6 of the millions of Americans on the new blood-thinning medications for atrial fibrillation, a common heart condition characterized by an irregular and often rapid heart rate, may not be receiving the recomm...

A new test could improve diagnosis and treatment of heart disease by measuring how effectively a patient's high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) cleans up arterial cholesterol, new research shows.

Whether using embryonic or adult stem cells, coercing these master cells to convert to the desired target cell and reproduce flawlessly is difficult. Now an international team of researchers has a two-part system that ca...

The cancer risk for a human mission to Mars has effectively doubled following a study predicting a dramatic increase in the disease for astronauts traveling to the red planet or on long-term missions outside the protecti...

Triggering pathological gamblers to envision a future personal experience reduces their preference for an immediate reward over a larger, delayed award, according to a study.

Mild hearing loss from exposure to less than one hour of loud noise leads to a reorganization of circuits in a key midbrain structure of the auditory system in mice, finds new research. However, exposure to moderate whit...

The recycled capsule contained the first Chinese experiment to join the US side of the International Space Station, plus neutron star observation equipment

Making computers less certain of their abilities might stop them filling Facebook with fake news and make machines safer to be around

Androgen drives many prostate cancers. But the body uses androgen for muscle growth and maintenance, among other functions. An ongoing study evaluates the effects of androgen deprivation therapy not just on patients' phy...

In news that may bring hope to asthma sufferers, scientists discover a mechanism that provides a possible new target for allergy treatments. By observing the allergic response in mice with asthma, scientists at the Franc...

Rivers, lakes, volcanoes and even human development on Earth can take on an abstract aesthetic when viewed from space. Here's a look at our planet as seen from NASA's Earth-orbiting satellites

For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.

Scientists aren't sure if a big dimple on Mars came from something smacking into the Red Planet's surface or if it was simply caused by a collapse.

The brain is a complex organ -- a network of nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling. How does this complex system change from childhood to adulthood to late life in order to maintain opti...