Brushing Teeth Helps Stave Off Heart Disease
A study based in Korea found that brushing teeth three or more times a day…
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Are plant-based diets a healthy meat alternative? – WLS-TV
Are plant-based diets a healthy meat alternative? WLS-TV Read Original Article: Are plant-based diets a healthy…
Assistance during first years of biology major leads to higher retention of first-gen students
Assistance during the first years of a biology major leads to higher retention of first-generation…
As China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional stoves persists
Old habits are hard to break. A new study of replacement of traditional wood and…
Artificial cells act more like the real thing
Protocells — artificial cells — that are active and mimic living cells by moving independently…
‘Buildings’ in human bone may hold key to stronger 3D-printed lightweight structures
The discovery of how a ‘beam’ in human bone material handles a lifetime’s worth of…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission explains Asteroid Bennu’s mysterious particle events
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s…
Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion
Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion, and this information transfer is at…
Mobile devices blur work and personal privacy raising cyber risks
Organizations aren’t moving quickly enough on cyber security threats linked to the drive toward using…
Dull teeth, long skulls, specialized bites evolved in unrelated plant-eating dinosaurs
Herbivorous dinosaurs evolved many times during the 180 million-year Mesozoic era, and while they didn’t…
Bats may benefit from wildfire
Bats face many threats — from habitat loss and climate change to emerging diseases, such…
Can Arctic ‘ice management’ combat climate change?
According to a much-debated geo-engineering approach, both sea-ice retreat and global warming could be slowed…
How flowers adapt to their pollinators
The first flowering plants originated more than 140 million years ago in the early Cretaceous….
Damaging rains from hurricanes more intense after winds begin to subside
Howling wind drives torrential rain sideways as tall, slender palms bow and tree limbs snap….
Changing wildfires in the California’s Sierra Nevada may threaten northern goshawks
Research suggests fire, as it becomes more frequent and severe, poses a substantial risk to…
Carbon emissions from volcanic rocks can create global warming
Greenhouse gas emissions released directly from the movement of volcanic rocks are capable of creating…
A robot and software make it easier to create advanced materials
A team of engineers has developed an automated way to produce polymers, making it much…
Frank Dobson: Labour politician who became “best UK health secretary since Aneurin Bevan”
bmj;367/dec05_10/l6792/FAF1faPhoto credit: Glenn Corpus/ShutterstockFrank Dobson was the first Labour health secretary for nearly 20 years…
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Medical memoirs: using patient stories with explicit consent
Thanks for the fantastic column about the ethics of medical memoirs.1 I wanted to tell…
Acute paraplegia in a healthy child
A previously healthy 12 year old girl presented to the emergency department with two days…
Shared decision making: why the slow progress? An essay by Neal Maskrey
Shared decision making occurs when clinicians and patients work together to select tests, treatments, management,…
Intrusive thoughts in perinatal obsessive-compulsive disorder
What you need to knowIntrusive thoughts are distressing, unwanted thoughts, images, impulses, or urges that…
The BMJ Christmas 2019 appeal: a health centre is not a health centre if it doesn’t have clean water
bmj;367/dec05_7/l6807/FAF1faWaterAid/James KiyimbaIn Kharumwa Hospital in northwestern Tanzania doctors such as Casmir Lubango (pictured) have seen…
A winter’s tale of promises
The NHS is heading into winter with its performance against key targets the worst on…
No life of crime . . . and other stories
Violent crimeIt’s easy to imagine that young men who experience combat in a military role…
Nursing workforce crisis in numbers
The NHS in England is facing a crisis in nursing workforce numbers.1 The problem is…
Vitamin A and C deficiencies
This photograph (fig 1) shows features of vitamin A deficiency: follicular keratotic papules (A) and…
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Tuberculosis: experts question evidence and safety data used to approve latest drug
Two dozen leading tuberculosis (TB) clinicians and researchers have written to a leading TB charity…
Lack of social care has cost the NHS 2.5 million bed days since last election, charity says
A lack of social care provision will have led to 2.5 million lost bed days…
Wildlife Experts Worried By Footage Of Spray-Painted Polar Bear
Recently, a video showing a spray-painted polar bear made rounds on the internet, inciting the…
Global Warming Predicted By 50-Year-Old Scientific Models
According to a recent evaluation, climate change readings made 50 years ago are as accurate…
After Staying In Antarctica, Scientists’ Brains Shrank A Bit
Per a news release, a group of scientists who did an extended stay in Antarctica…
Sun’s Rogue Plasma Waves And Magnetic Islands Revealed By NASA’s Parker Probe
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently had its first two intimate encounters with the Sun, witnessing…
Common Food Rituals Anorexia Nervosa Patients Frequently Do
Anorexia nervosa is a condition where people go to extreme lengths just to lose weight….
Hypertension During Pregnancy: Why It’s Dangerous
According to studies, home monitoring of women suffering from hypertension during pregnancy can reduce the…
Tell-Tale Signs Of Emotional Abuse
Here are some tell-tale signs that you, or someone you know, is getting emotionally abused…
How Nutrition Affects Your Mental Health
From lower risk of depression, anxiety to better gut health, read on to know how…
Legal Immigrants Unlikely To Relocate For Better Health Insurance To Another State
A Stanford University study analyzed legal information on lawful immigrants to conclude they did not…
New Age Voyeurism: Somebody Could Be Watching You Through Your Smart TV
The FBI in Portland warned consumers splurging during the holiday season about the increasing possibilities…
Is CBD a Trojan Horse for a Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine? – Pharmacy Times
Is CBD a Trojan Horse for a Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine? Pharmacy Times Read Original Article: Is…
Gulf of Mexico coral reefs to protect from storm surge in the future — But will they?
Researchers used 120,000-year-old fossils to predict how Gulf of Mexico coral reefs will respond to…
New tool to predict the global spread of dengue
Researchers have developed a new tool to predict the global spread of human infectious diseases,…
Atmospheric river storms create $1 billion-a-year flood damage
Researchers found that flooding has caused nearly $51 billion in damages to western states in…
How plants harness ‘bad’ molecules for good ends
Researchers show how plants harness toxic molecules called reactive oxygen species for the signaling pathway…
How do world’s smallest sea turtles become stranded in Cape Cod?
A computational analysis has surfaced new insights into the wind and water conditions that cause…
Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers’ search
A senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in…
Closest-ever approach to the sun gives new insights into the solar wind
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has flown closer to the sun than any mission…
Sun’s close-up reveals atmosphere hopping with highly energetic particles
Outbursts of energetic particles that hurtle out from the sun and can disrupt space communications…
Hidden giant planet revealed around tiny white dwarf star
The first evidence of a giant planet orbiting a dead white dwarf star has been…
Molecular bodyguards against Parkinson’s disease
Chaperone proteins in human cells dynamically interact with the protein alpha-Synuclein, which is strongly associated…