Electronic cigarettes should be evaluated, regulated, labeled and packaged in a manner consistent with cartridge content and product effect – even if that…
“It's not good enough just to have a plan, you have to test it. You have to know how well it will work in an emergency,” says Dick Zoutman, Queen's professor…
Only if scientists of all disciplines work together and share information – databases, biological samples and new perspectives – will the research community be…
The work is published online in this month's American Journal of Psychiatry.According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 18 percent of Americans have…
After taking a thiazolidinedione (TZD) for one year, women are 50 percent more likely to have a bone fracture than patients not taking TZDs, according to study…
The results were reported today by neurology researchers at the University at Buffalo.When the 10.2 percent of subjects in which results were border line were…
“The default-mode network appears to be the brain's back burner for social decision making,” said Peter T. Fox, M.D., director of the Research Imaging…
The Challenger Deep is located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. It lies in the hadal zone beyond the abyssal zone, and plunges down to a…
American Heart Association rapid access journal reportRacial gaps exist in women’s heart-health awareness, women’s knowledge of heart attack warning signs…
“Many scientists are looking for the warning signs that herald sudden changes in natural systems, in hopes of forestalling those changes, or improving our…
The finding, the result of a survey of more than 100 studies involving the instrument, including those by the scientists, confirms the sensitivity of the tool,…
If you've seen or experienced these scenarios, you may not be surprised about the latest finding from an international team of social and cognitive…
“We think early life stress increases sensitivity to a hormone known to increase your blood pressure and increases your cardiovascular risk in adult life,”…
Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 100,000 Canadians and over 4 million people worldwide, a number expected to double by the year…
In a commentary appearing in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, heart specialists at the University of Michigan Health System make a plea…
As if there are not enough reasons for obese people to lose weight, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, adds several more. In a study…