Researchers from 14 institutions across the country today announced the results of the first genome-wide linkage study of prostate cancer in African Americans….
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces a nationwide study to see if a modified combination of vitamins, minerals, and fish oil can further slow the…
Using data from the Multiethnic Cohort Study, V. Wendy Setiawan, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and…
A NASA-funded study published in the July 26, 2006 Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres found that during April-May 2003, large amounts of smoke, which…
Research was conducted on a convenience sample of 156 residents from three surgical specialties who completed questionnaires designed to measure subjective…
In a new survey of noise levels of the New York City transit system, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that exposure…
Staff monitored by researchers in the University’s Asthma and Allergy Research Group were shown to have experienced significant benefits to their general…
Hydrogen sulfide gas, sometimes called sewer gas, produces a noxious odor often described as a rotten egg smell. The gas occurs naturally in swamps, springs…
But in a new study, published online October 9, 2006 in The Anatomical Record, the official journal of the American Association of Anatomists, researchers…
Specific personality variables, such as anger or irritability predict the tendency to either engage in aggressive behavior willingly or to engage in aggressive…
What if you couldn't perform daily activities, such as exercising or running with your children, because of overly large breasts that caused unending pain?…
The new study comparing the naked mole-rat, which has a life span of 28 years, and the mouse, which has a lifespan of three years, will be presented Oct. 8 at…
Many of these adolescents will be lured to cigarettes by advertisements and movies that feature sophisticated models and actors, suggesting that smoking is a…
Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital turned up the heat on “disorderly” proteins and confirmed that most of these unruly molecules perform…
They found that the drug combination that was the most expensive in the short term was in fact the most cost-effective, because its superior performance in…
The results show that people who carry a particular variant of APOA5 may have elevated risk factors that are associated with heart disease, but only if they…
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