Getting the heart pumping with aerobic exercise, like walking or cycling for 35 minutes three times a week, may improve
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What are you looking at? How attention affects decision-making
Scientists using eye-tracking technology have found that what we look at helps guide our decisions when faced with two visible
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Can pyruvate improve cardiac function following surgery?
Can pyruvate, the end product of glycolysis, help improve cardiovascular function in children who have cardiopulmonary bypass surgery and suffer
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Exercise linked to reduced mortality for patients with cancer
(HealthDay)—For patients with cancer, participation in prediagnosis and postdiagnosis recreational physical activity is associated with reduced mortality, according to a
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Certain sites of brain lesions in MS tied to bowel incontinence
(HealthDay)—Specific locations of cerebral multiple sclerosis lesions appear to be associated with bowel incontinence, according to a study published online
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Levels of gene-expression-regulating enzyme altered in brains of people with schizophrenia
A study using a PET scan tracer developed at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
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Whether a urinary tract infection recurs may depend on the bacterial strain
Genetically diverse bacterial strains that cause urinary tract infections differ in their ability to trigger protective immune responses in mice,
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Researchers discover an immune response associated with the development of idiopathic scoliosis (IS) in zebrafish
Idiopathic scoliosis (IS) is a complex genetic disorder that affects approximately 4 per cent of children worldwide, yet its underlying
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In the developing brain, scientists find roots of neuropsychiatric diseases
The most comprehensive genomic analysis of the human brain ever undertaken has revealed new insights into the changes it undergoes
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Drug targets for Ebola, Dengue, and Zika viruses found in lab study
No drugs are currently available to treat Ebola, Dengue, or Zika viruses, which infect millions of people every year and
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