Month: January 2018

Although tobacco control measures have reduced overall smoking rates in the United States (from 42% in 1965 to 15% in ...

For many years, long-term research has played a key role in revealing the planet's complex ecological and evolutionary dynamics. But ...

Credit: Joslin Communications BOSTON - (January 31, 2018) - In people with type 1 diabetes, high levels of blood glucose ...

Targeted interventions can significantly improve screening for diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes and the leading cause of vision loss ...

In the course of 2017, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) completed its 200th dossier ...

Guidelines for teenagers should stress the importance of vigorous physical activity and fitness to cut the risk of heart disease, ...

Thirty years ago it was rare for a student with ASD to enter college. But over the past decades, there ...

Over the last few decades, a wealth of evidence has accumulated to suggest that a lack of sleep is bad ...

Credit: Graham J. Hickling, Ph.D., University of Tennessee Annapolis, MD; January 24, 2018--Not all ticks are alike--particularly when it comes ...

Credit: American Society for Microbiology High concentrations of heavy metals, like copper and gold, are toxic for most living creatures. ...

Credit: HKBU Skin squames are a source of food for the bacteria found in air-cooling units, which produce odours even ...

Credit: G. Bodo and P. Rossi (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy) and A. Mignone (Torino University, Italy). A blazar is ...

Credit: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC) The study presents the discovery of one of the stars with the least content of ...

WASHINGTON -- If you saw someone steal an expensive item from a department store, would you think he is less ...

EUGENE, Ore. - Jan. 31, 2017 -- A comprehensive analysis of policies related to sexual assaults -- known as mandatory ...

Indigenous people in British Columbia suffered transportation-related injuries at a rate 1.89 times higher than the province's total population between ...

Credit: Scott Jones, Houston Methodist HOUSTON - (Jan. 31, 2018) - Houston Methodist researchers have a new explanation for what ...

Credit: Jessica McGaw / Queensland Brain Institute, UQ Inadequate oxygen levels during sleep can damage the brain and increase the ...

Credit: Carolyn Trietsch About the size of a sesame seed, a new species of wasp from Costa Rica, named Dendrocerus ...

A diagnosis of cancer causes huge psychological stress, but many patients do not receive any psychological support. An online stress ...