Mothers have been telling their children to stop slouching for ages. It turns out that mom was onto something and that poor posture not only makes a bad…
The tactic was inflating the selling price of a home, but offering the buyer some incentive – often cash back – to accept the inflated price. The buyer could…
Regular exercise may be a useful strategy for helping prevent the development of panic and related disorders, a new study suggests.People with an intense fear…
“Our study suggests that rather than just paying attention to already known risk factors for dementia, such as diabetes or heart disease, keeping up with your…
Do the same principles apply for young infants, and not just to things, but also to abstractions? A new study by Marcela Peña, Jacques Mehler, and Marina…
One-fifth of all patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension suffer with the fatal disease for more than two years before being correctly diagnosed and…
A Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert is calling for all sexually active American women age 40 and older to get tested for the parasite Trichomonas…
Fame is the No. 1 value emphasized by television shows popular with 9- to 11-year-olds, a dramatic change over the past 10 years, UCLA psychologists report in…
The U-M School of Public Health study also reported suggestive findings consistent with a previously reported link between a chemical called bisphenol-A and…
More patients are tested and treated for osteoporosis when fracture clinics have someone dedicated to screening for the bone disease, a new study has found.Those patients also do better when the clinic actually provides bone mineral density (BMD) testing or prescription drug treatment as part of its program rather than just referring fracture patients elsewhere….
Pets can serve as important sources of social and emotional support for “everyday people,” not just individuals facing significant health challenges, according…
These basic temperamental patterns are linked to opposite hormonal responses to stress – differences that may provide children with advantages for navigating…
Surprising results from a new study revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked….
That's the conclusion of a study by Henry Ford Hospital researchers who sought to evaluate whether hypoallergenic dogs have a lower dog allergen in the home…
This process is called biological motion perception, and humans are so good at it that even a few dots on a screen representing the major joints of a body are…
Research universities with an organizational climate that actively supports commercialization and encourages interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers…