Though the seven-month-old boy made a full recovery, health researchers were concerned because of evidence that the virus spread to other members of the…
Except for 1987, when there were no fatalities, the last year a single human death occurred from a shark attack was in 1985, said George Burgess, director of…
Social scientists have long been intrigued by the human tendency to mimic the behavior of others. Now, a new study from the April issue of the Journal of…
But those sex differences didn’t hold up in a new in-depth study of romantic attraction undertaken by two Northwestern University psychologists.In short, the…
Scientists from Imperial College London and other European institutions monitored 140 sleeping volunteers in their homes near London Heathrow and three other…
Shrews are tiny mammals that have been widely characterized as simple and primitive. This traditional view is challenged by a new study of the hunting methods…
It has been commonly believed that high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) or hypercapnia in the blood and lungs of patients with acute lung disease may be…
Preeclampsia, or high blood pressure induced by pregnancy, affects 7 to 10 percent of pregnancies in the United States and is the second-leading cause of…
A team of researchers led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has identified a new mechanism that explains why some recurrent ovarian tumors become…
What do marathoners and heart failure patients have in common? More than you think according to new findings by physiologists at Columbia University Medical…
In human children, sensitivity to touch is one of a number of characteristics of the approximately 5 percent of children who over-respond to sensory…
Dr Haston’s study is pointing at genetics as contributing to this bone frailty, a finding which may have some implications in changing therapeutic practices….
Quickly moving your fingertips to tap or press a surface is essential for everyday life to, say, pick up small objects, use a BlackBerry or an iPhone. But…
This is the first study to attempt to look beyond the formal sex education curriculum and assess whether the way in which schools are run, in terms of their…
Delegates at the British Society for Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery Conference will hear that results from a pilot study saw graduates 95 per cent more…
The study, funded by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will give hundreds of patients with hypertension an electronic personal health…
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