“Indoor and outdoor falls are both important,” says senior author Marian T. Hannan, D.Sc., a senior scientist at the Institute for Aging Research, “but people…
Changing how a person perceives and thinks about others was the most effective intervention for loneliness, a sweeping analysis of previous research has…
Now, a pilot study of six families living in a farm town in New Mexico suggests that small infusions of cash could fuel such cooperation and produce…
Schoolyard taunts of any type can potentially damage a child's sense of self-confidence. But a new study suggests that a particular kind of teasing – about…
Obesity has been associated with an increased incidence of many cancers, including leukemia, but it has been unknown whether the increase in incidence was a…
Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighborhoods compared with those living in the highest income…
A study by a team of researchers from Warwick Medical School and the State University of New York at Buffalo has found short sleep duration is associated with…
Researchers from Iran studied 360 recipients who had received kidneys from unrelated donors to discover what factors increased the risk of TRAS, where the…
A study by researchers at the University of Bradford and published today in the Journal of Applied Microbiology looked at different methods of hand drying, and…
Mild cognitive impairment is a condition in which people have problems with memory or thinking beyond that explained by the normal rate of aging. The study…
“This is a new way for radiologists to impact public and mental health,” said the study's senior author, William E. Shiels II, D.O., chairman of the Department…
Studies by the University's School of Psychology have revealed the potential for remarkable improvements in workers' attitudes to their jobs by allowing them…
Following an uptick last year, unionization rates fell between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, by just more than half a percentage point in California and by…
A long-term study of women with a genetic predisposition for breast or ovarian cancer showed that those who elected major preventive surgeries had a…
The study also indicates that when the senses relay information on these environmental factors, it can influence daily activity and, in the case of a…
“We often think of Parkinson’s disease as being a disorder of motor function,” says Douglas Munoz, director of the Queen's Centre for Neuroscience Studies and…
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