The new findings, published in Platelets, show that ticagrelor may reduce the risk of dying as a result of a lung infection after suffering a heart attack…
Overweight adolescents were twice as likely as their normal weight peers to later develop esophageal cancer in a recent study from Israel. The study, which is…
A recent study by a University of Missouri researcher shows that resveratrol, a compound found in grape skins and red wine, can make certain tumor cells more…
The book describes different people’s relation to clothes and textiles – how they are consumed and then sorted out to be recycled in different ways. Today many…
The number of patents issued for renewable-energy technologies has risen sharply over the last decade, according to new research from MIT and the Santa Fe…
Indigenous hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived side-by-side for more than 2,000 years in Central Europe, before the hunter-gatherer communities died…
The study, published today in the open access journal BMC Medicine, used DNA barcoding technology to test 44 herbal products sold by 12 companies. Only two of…
Smartphones are big business, prompting fierce competition between providers. One major concern for consumers is whether a smartphone will keep their private…
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” goes the playground rhyme that's supposed to help children endure taunts from classmates….
The finding is significant because some segments of the older-consumer population control a considerable share of the discretionary income in the United…
If you have stopped at a gas station recently, there is a good chance your auto has consumed fuel with ethanol blended into it. Yet the price of gasoline is…
Trait anxiety is a measure of how anxious a person usually is, as opposed to state anxiety, which refers to how anxious we are at the moment. A meta-analysis…
The discovery, published Oct. 9 in Science Translational Medicine, could point the way to better treatments for patients who are medically vulnerable and,…
The study, published in the September issue of Ecology and Society, examined a combination of 15 social and ecological variables — from tourism and per capita…
In many modern societies, adults often sacrifice sleep during the workweek to make time for other demands, then snooze longer on the weekends to recoup that…
Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability and the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States. “These results highlight the severe toll that…