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Credit: McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, A $15-million gift from the visionary Montreal-based Doggone Foundation will launch the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative i..

Credit: UC Davis Catherine Brinkley is a professor of human and community development and human ecology at UC Davis. So it's interesting that in a recent published paper, she advocates that ci..

A 10% tax on sweet snacks could lead to a similar reduction in consumer demand as taxing sugar-sweetened drinks Taxing chocolate and confectionary is estimated to have knock-on effects that may furth..

TORONTO, April 26, 2018 - In the largest study of its kind, a three-minute version of a brain stimulation treatment was shown to be just as effective as the standard 37-minute version for hard-to-trea..

Credit: Paolo Tonato In the early 2000s Turkey was a country in full demographic transition. Fertility rates had dropped to replacement level and were heading toward the lower levels of Southern Eu..

Researchers led by the University of Leicester have devised a 'risk score' which will be used to help frail older people have better support in hospital. Using the concept of frailty (whic..

(University of Warwick) Diabetes UK has committed to invest £2.6 million in 19 brand new projects which aim to make life-changing improvements in diabetes care, and reduce people's risk of Type 2 diabetes.

Credit: Gary Linkevich/Rice University The first study to spring from a Rice University-led 2013 international expedition to map the sea floor off the coast of Spain has revealed details about the e..

Credit: Aadeel Akhtar, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Losing an arm doesn't have to mean losing all sense of touch, thanks to prosthetic arms that stimulate nerves with mild electrical feedback. University of Illinois…

New Orleans, LA - Research led by LSU Health New Orleans faculty has found that obesity contributed to poorer outcomes in non-white patients who had hemorrhagic strokes. It is one of the few studies examining outcomes of patients with…