Month: October 2016

Credit: Douglas Hamilton The moon, Earth's closest neighbor, is among the strangest planetary bodies in the solar system. Its orbit ...

Credit: Jordan W. Smith/Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Instagram pictures of friends and family enjoying the outdoors are ...

Up to 70 per cent of cancer patients report cognitive symptoms following chemotherapy. These symptoms have been linked to poorer ...

Existing chemotherapy approaches treat cancer by targeting cells that are actively multiplying and have a high metabolic rate. However, cancer ...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Standard-of-care treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer includes radiation, chemotherapy and brachytherapy (in which ...

"Cognitive rehabilitation should be a core part of cancer survivorship care, as cognitive symptoms are very common and have a ...

Portland, Oregon, Oct. 31, 2016 - When it comes to prostate cancer biopsies, risk and reality don't always match up, ...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - October 31, 2016 - Normal, healthy heart muscle is well-supplied with oxygen-rich blood. ...

Nearly 7 in 10 cigarette smokers are looking for a way to quit - and many smokers have turned to ...

From HIV to Malaria to Ebola, health and medical research with human participants in Africa -- and the ethical evaluation ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have identified a mechanism that causes low clouds - and their influence on Earth's energy ...

Credit: Lehigh University Once the preferred weapon of B-movie madmen and space-fiction heroes alike, the laser -- a device that ...

Credit: Ilkka Miinalainen, University of Oulu. Researchers at the Wihuri Research Institute and the University of Helsinki, Finland, have found ...

Credit: Hobbs, UC San Diego/PNAS Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 ...

ANN ARBOR--Scientists have demonstrated how a mutation in a specific protein in stem cells causes an incurable premature aging disease ...

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery The prognosis for patients diagnosed with scleroderma - an autoimmune disease characterized by fibrosis of ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new, less invasive way to perform transcatheter aortic valve ...

PITTSBURGH--For as long as scientists have been listening in on the activity of the brain, they have been trying to ...

Credit: Matthew West. October 31, 2016 Putting the squeeze on mitochondria: The final cut A new University of Colorado Boulder ...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA-The brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, according to a new study published ...