A study finds that children ages 3 to 7 who don't get enough sleep are more likely to have problems with attention, emotional control and peer relationships in mid-childhood.Image Credit: Flickr/Premnath Thirumalaisamy
A study led by a Massachusetts General...
Middle-aged people who experience temporary blood pressure drops that often cause dizziness upon standing up may be at an increased risk of developing cognitive decline and dementia 20 years later, new study says. Image Credit: Flickr/Quinn Dombrowski
Middle-aged people who...
A new study shows that volunteering is associated with better employment and health outcomes.Image credit: Flickr/Matthew Kenwrick
Researchers of Ghent University analysed data on volunteering, employment and health of more than 40,000 European citizens. Their results, just published in PLOS...
Zika also may have serious effects on the heart, new research shows in the first study to report cardiovascular complications related to this virus, according to data being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session.
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Vegetables at the market Assorted vegetables at a market.Credit: copyright American Heart Association
Eating a diet lacking in healthy foods and/or high in unhealthy foods was linked to more than 400,000 deaths from heart and blood vessel diseases in 2015,...
SHANK regulates adhesion and protrusion in very different cell types: cancer cells and neurons. Image taken by Dr Guillaume Jacquemet reveals the distinct morphologies of neurons and cancer cells. On the right: Primary Rat hippocampal neuron stained for actin...
Vitamin D deficiency is linked in adults to a higher risk of suffering from various diseases. Since very few foods contain this vitamin, its synthesis in the skin as a result of sun exposure is the main natural source...
Scientists have found that significant levels of cancer-causing benzene in e-cigarette vapors can form when the devices are operated at high power.Image Credit: Flickr/Lindsay Fox
Portland State University scientists have found that significant levels of cancer-causing benzene in e-cigarette...
A schematic representation of the experimental design. Credit: Northwestern University
A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse's skull by regrowing "quality bone," a breakthrough that could drastically improve the care of people who suffer severe trauma to...
UCI chemistry professor Ken Shea (right) and doctoral student Jeffrey O'Brien have developed a broad-spectrum snake venom antidote.Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI
Chemists at the University of California, Irvine have developed a way to neutralize deadly snake venom more cheaply...
A whole Drosophila larva expressing a fluorescent protein (red) in a subset of its sensory neurons. The inset shows one set of these neurons expressing a red fluorescent protein that outlines the whole cell, and a green fluorescent protein...
