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Using archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast...
To better understand how age impacts random behavior, researchers assessed more than 3,400 people aged 4 to 91 years old.
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People's ability to make random choices or mimic a random process, such as coming up with...
Red wine.
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Let it be no misunderstanding: heavy alcohol intake has severe harmful effects. But already for several years, researchers have been finding that moderate wine intake can be beneficial in delaying the onset of cognitive...
More than 18 million Americans got their drinking water from systems with lead violations in 2015, according to a groundbreaking Natural Resources Defense Council report. The problem could be significantly more pervasive because many more water systems known to...
Research from the School of Family Life found that happily married couples have better health.
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New BYU research finds that people in happy marriages live less "in sickness" but enjoy more of life "in health."
In...
Are we born to root for heroes? Researchers in Japan have evidence suggesting yes.
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We recognize justice before we can talk, reports a research team in Nature Human Behaviour.
The Kyoto-based study demonstrates that human infants recognize heroic acts...
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Nine out of 10 people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, calling for dramatic action against pollution...
Hypodermic needle (stock image).
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Results from the first phase 1 trial of an Ebola vaccine based on the current (2014) strain of the virus are today published in The Lancet. Until now, all tested...
Urban air pollution in the city of Beirut.
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Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health that has released a report detailing the...
This is Kafuli Agbemenu, PhD, assistant professor in the UB School of Nursing.
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For years, research has shown that female Somali Bantu refugees may be hesitant to use hormonal birth control and other methods of family planning.
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First generation cephalosporins -- antibiotics introduced as a treatment against bacterial infections in 1963 -- now show promise for tuberculosis (TB) therapy, according to new research published in Scientific Reports.
Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the most deadly infectious...
