Investigators from the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University have reported that African American women who consumed a diet high in vegetables and…
May 20, 2011
Sprint speed, height, and weight are the best predictors of how high school football players will be ranked by college recruiting scouts, reports a study in…
May 19, 2011
Analysis of a 440-year-old document reveals new details about native population decline in the heartland of the Inca Empire following Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
May 19, 2011
It stands to reason that a well-loved child can become a loving adult. But what prepares us to make a strong commitment and work out differences with an intimate partner?
May 18, 2011
How fast can you run a mile? If you’re middle-aged, the answer could provide a strong predictor of your risk of heart attack or stroke over the next decade or more.
May 18, 2011
New research shows that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing for Borrelia burgdorferi DNA—the spirochetal bacteria transmitted by deer ticks—in joint fluid…
May 17, 2011
When one partner in a couple is infected with HIV and the other is not, treatment with antiretroviral drugs can dramatically lower the chances of the infected partner passing along the disease to his or her mate, a new evidence review finds.
May 11, 2011
TORONTO, Ont., May 11, 2011 -- Disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) are injected medications used to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), and have been shown to reduce the frequency and severity of relapses.
May 10, 2011
This discovery will make it possible to improve photoelectrochemical cells. In the same way that plants use photosynthesis to transform sunlight into energy, these cells use sunlight to drive chemical reactions that ultimately produce hydrogen from water.
May 10, 2011
DETROIT -- A landmark study by scientists at Wayne State University published in the May 6, 2011, issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, the most prestigious…
May 10, 2011
Two decades after Brazil's constitution recognized health as a citizen's right and a duty of the state, the country has vastly expanded health care coverage…
May 10, 2011
People who are depressed are less likely to adhere to medications for their chronic health problems than patients who are not depressed, putting them at increased risk of poor health, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
May 10, 2011
Salmonella enterica, one of the main causes of gastrointestinal infections, modulates its virulence gene expression, adapting it to each stage of the infection process, depending on the free iron concentration found in the intestinal epithelium of its host.
May 10, 2011
LOS ANGELES (May 9, 2011) -- A common, tiny tropical fish plays a key role in a new model for Cushing disease, giving researchers a powerful tool to conduct…
May 10, 2011
