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.
According to research published online in the journal Heart, recreational drug, alcohol, and tobacco use is associated with early onset heart disease in young.
Children who experience abuse in their childhood and adolescence may be more prone to behavioral issues than those who just experience abuse during adolescence.
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.
Hospitalized patients from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to survive cardiac arrest than patients from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.
A new study examined how disadvantaged children face poor cognitive and mental health outcomes, how "neighborhood disadvantage" affect brain circuitry.
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...