In cannabis studies for pain, placebos provide similar pain alleviation as active cannabinoids. According to Karolinska Institutet researchers in JAMA Network Open, these studies receive considerable media coverage regardless of the clinical result.
Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden describe in a paper published...
HDL cholesterol may not be as useful in predicting cardiovascular disease risk among persons of various races and ethnicities as experts formerly believed.
Caffeine consumption during pregnancy, even in small amount, may lead to slightly shorter child height, suggests an analysis by National Institutes of Health researchers.
Immigrants to Canada have a 33% lower rate of stroke than long-term residents, according to a study published in the August 18, 2021, online issue of Neurology.
Generous people live longer. The act of sharing empowers social connections. The recipient directly gets benefit from the donation by meeting an urgent need, while the donor receives mental satisfaction.
According to a recent study, postmenopausal women who suffer both high levels of social isolation and loneliness also have a 27% higher chance of developing heart disease.
According to research published online in the journal Heart, recreational drug, alcohol, and tobacco use is associated with early onset heart disease in young.
Physical exercise of any intensity is good for health, but more intense activity has better benefits, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine.
Biologists have been searching for the earliest animals for more than a century, narrowing the possibilities down to two groups: sponges and comb jellies.
Researchers...
An observational study conducted by Imperial College London reveals that greater consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF) is associated with a higher risk of developing...
Traffic pollution is an ever-growing problem in increasingly busy and populous urban areas. Its effects on the human body have been well-documented, but one...
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to biotechnology has made possible the ability to create wholly original proteins from scratch.
AI has begun to be...