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A new study demonstrates that patients who develop postoperative delirium have increased openings in the blood-brain barrier. Up ...

A new blood test that can identify the progression of osteoarthritis in the knee is more accurate than ...

An ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells ...

Watching tutorials that inspire healthcare workers to contemplate awe, gratitude, and kindness can promote enduring improvements in mental ...

Which kind of fiber supplement is right for you? It doesn’t really matter, researchers say. That huge array ...

COVID exacted a huge toll on the well-being of health care workers, a new survey shows. Already struggling ...

Your kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory Petri dish, researchers report. ...

Human muscle has an innate ability to ward off the damaging effects of chronic inflammation when exercised, according ...

New research may reveal why women get severe COVID-19 at about half the rate as men. Women have ...

Researchers have found heavy metals leaking from unlined coal ash ponds near 21 power plants in five US ...

Laboratory rats that breathed Beijing's highly polluted air gained weight and experienced cardio-respiratory and metabolic dysfunctions after just ...

Using gadgets to track how much eat, sleep, and exercise could have an unseen cost—enjoyment. "In general, tracking ...

Chronically lonely teenagers may respond to social situations in ways that perpetuate rather than reduce their loneliness, say ...

A new study confirms what insurance companies already know: Credit scores can reveal how healthy you are. Researchers ...

Picky eating among children is a common but burdensome problem that can result in poor nutrition for kids, ...

Scientists have found a key piece of the puzzle needed to potentially cure or treat dengue. The virus ...

Looking around at a 20th high school reunion, you might notice something puzzling about your classmates. Although they ...

In the four years following the 2008 recession, the coal industry lost more than 49,000 jobs, while the ...

Even when health care providers in rural India know the right treatment for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia, they ...

After each one of those big meals you ate over the holidays, the cells lining your stomach and ...

A credit score doesn't just reduce a person's entire financial history down to a single number and somehow ...

A new study finds that when one percent of a state's working population lost jobs, suicide-related behaviors increased by ...

Researchers say "not so fast" to claims that daughters cause divorce. They argue that girls may be hardier ...

To find out how courting peacocks get noticed by females, researchers put tiny head-cams on peahens and tracked ...