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Relief may be on the horizon for anyone who has ever jumped around a room like a jack-in-the-box to get motion-sensing lights to turn back on, thanks to a new motion sensor based on metamaterials that is sensitive enough...

Being able to grow new organs from a patient’s own cells could revolutionize both the safety and availability of transplants. Scientists have now overcome major hurdles in the realization of the technology--but in pigs...

Does digital eyestrain cause lasting damage to children's eyes? Should your child use reading glasses or computer glasses?

In many countries, health care reimbursements for drugs are directly related to their value or net health benefits in treating disease. But a new study shows that's not the case in the United States.

Scientists have created a powerful new tool for precisely controlling the 3-D architecture -- also called stereochemistry -- of linkages known as thiophosphates, found in some promising new drugs that target genetic mole...

An analysis of more than 580,000 heart attacks found that women are slightly less likely to die from a heart attack if they are seen by a female doctor

There could be a planetary threshold beyond which the earth will keep warming even if we stop pumping out more fossil fuels - the so-called 'Hothouse Earth' scenario

A review of nearly 582,000 heart attack cases over 19 years showed female patients had a significantly higher survival rate when a woman treated them in the ER, according to research by faculty members at Minnesota, Wash...

Feeling stressed or anxious makes people more able to process and internalise bad news, finds a new study.

Scientists have discovered that curcumin to be an effective agent for killing cancer cells. Curcumin's effective has been extremely limited because it isn't natually soluble in water. Recently, however a team has created...

Experiments with rats show that intrauterine protein restriction induces sex hormone imbalance, which appears to favor development of cancer in old age. The rate of prostate tumor development reached 50 percent among the...

Doxorubicin is a chemotherapy drug used in ovarian, bladder, lung, thyroid and stomach cancers, but it carries a harmful side effect. The drug causes a dose-dependent heart toxicity that can lead to congestive heart fail...

Children and adolescents are more vulnerable to climate-related disasters because of their anatomic, cognitive, immunologic, and psychologic differences compared to adults. Researchers set out some specific challenges as...

Hookworms infect people mostly in countries where sanitation is poor and people often walk barefoot. Working on a mouse model, a research team has studied the secretion of the immune protein RELMalpha that is triggered i...

A new study links folic acid intake in pregnant women with epilepsy and language development in children. Researchers report among children whose mothers with epilepsy did not take folic acid, 34% had delayed language sk...

Researchers have discovered two distinct pathways through which a single molecule can cause both painful and itchy skin.

Rescuers still have not reached some devastated parts of the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok after a powerful earthquake flattened houses and toppled bridges

'Painimations' may assess and monitor pain better than any previously used measures.

A new study reports male songbirds sing less to females during courtship if they have been exposed to low levels of SSRI antidepressants.

Here's a look at the tectonic plates that made the 7.0-magnitude earthquake possible.

Researchers reveal social activity and the activity of dopaminergic neurons contribute to individuality in mice.

So-called "grain-free" dog foods have become popular these days; but the diets may not be good for some pooches' hearts.