The more positively minority youth feel about their ethnicity or race, the fewer symptoms of depression and emotional and behavior problems they have. That's the ...

African American youth who report experiencing frequent discrimination during adolescence are at risk for developing heart disease, high blood pressure, ...

Previous research has suggested that shy children have difficulties with language. Now, a new longitudinal study paints a more nuanced picture. ...

Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthma – a disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial ...

A new study may alleviate concerns that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine leads to either the initiation ...

The February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR®) focuses on a variety of issues relating to clinical practice, practice management, health services ...

ANN ARBOR—In one of the first studies to show a significant association between BPA and cancer development, University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers have found liver tumors in mice exposed to the chemical ...

There are sleep cycles and there are also weight loss cycles. Almost everyone loses weight on weekdays and gains weight on ...

WASHINGTON - Single-sex education does not educate girls and ...

KANSAS CITY, MO—Disruptive clumps of mutated protein are often blamed for clogging cells and interfering with brain function in patients with the neurodegenerative ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Treating a peanut allergy with oral immunotherapy changes the DNA of the patient's immune cells, according to a new study from the Stanford University ...

DARIEN, IL – A genetic study of adult twins and a community-based study of adolescents both report novel links ...

NORTH GRAFTON, Mass. (January 31, 2014)—Young adults who care for an animal may have stronger social relationships and connection to their communities, according ...

Dartmouth researchers have developed a protocol that permits cells harvested from melanoma tumors in mice to grow readily in cell culture. Their ...

Tropical Storm Kajiki developed from the second tropical depression of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean season and quickly moved over the central Philippines. NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead ...

NASA's Aqua satellite provided infrared data on System 91S in the Mozambique Channel that showed a system battered by wind shear, stretched out, with broken convection. A false-colored infrared image was created ...

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 31, 2014) – Researchers in the Cedars-Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute discovered in pre-clinical models that dormant prostate cancer ...

Alexandria, VA – EARTH Magazine sits down with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to discuss the role of geoscience at the Department of the Interior, including the National ...

Cambridge, Mass. – January 31, 2014 – Behind every "Top 100" list is a generous sprinkling of personal bias and subjective decisions. Lacking the tools ...

West Orange, NJ. January 31, 2014. Researchers at Kessler Foundation have studied the measurement ...

URBANA, Ill. – Could the quality of your attachment to your parents affect your own child's risk for obesity? A new ...

BOSTON –– The most common genetic subtype of lung cancer, which has long defied treatment with targeted therapies, has had its growth halted by ...

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A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has developed a highly selective catalyst capable of electrochemically converting carbon dioxide — a greenhouse gas — to carbon monoxide with 92 ...

Recently, Beijing and the nearby Chinese provinces were veiled in smog that reduced visibility, induced health problems, and reached levels described as "beyond index." Last week, a team of scientists, which included ...