For over twenty years, scientists have known that a normal protein in the brain, PrP, or prion protein, can turn harmful and cause deadly illnesses like Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle...

Interest in personal health records as an electronic tool to manage health information is increasing dramatically...

Growing older is a fact of life, but people's hopes, fears, pre-conceptions and experiences surrounding the ageing process are richly diverse...

A large group of California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today...

An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India...

Fifteen-year-old males who ate fish at least once a week displayed higher cognitive skills at the age of 18 than those who it ate it less frequently, according to a study of nearly 4,000 teenagers published in the March issue of Acta Paediatrica...

A computer screen shows the electrical activity of a specialized heart cell called a sinoatrial nodal cell...

This is Madhu Singh, University of Iowa research scientist, at work in his lab...

DALLAS – March 9, 2009 – A newly discovered receptor in a strain of Escherichia coli might help explain why people often get sicker when they're stressed...

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