Day June 13, 2016

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IMAGE: Spatial distribution of simulated LAS spill-over events across its endemic region in western Africa for (a) present day, and (b) projected for 2070 under a medium climate and full land… view more Credit: Redding et al. UCL A model that…

Low birth weight or stress during pregnancy can lead to long-term health problems in women, according to a study published today in The Journal of Physiology. The study found that stress during pregnancy leads to long-term health issues in mothers,…

Image copyrightdidesign021 Patients in the most deprived areas of England face poorer levels of care due to an over-reliance on locum GPs, the British Medical Association has warned. Datan analysis by BBC News found in some parts of the country…

Transcription is the first in a series of steps cells take to read out genetic information in DNA. In a paper published online in Science today, Richard H. Ebright and other Rutgers scientists show how a transcription activator protein interacts…

America’s got a sweet tooth — and it’s killing us! Overconsumption of sugar has been linked to a variety of chronic health problems, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. But it’s almost impossible for us to avoid the…

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WASHINGTON As she waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a challenge to a restrictive Texas abortion law, Amy Hagstrom-Miller said she hopes she will not have to close up to three of the clinics she operates in…

After that unwanted revelation, I have done my best since then to lose weight. I changed my diet (goodbye pizza, old friend), started exercising more (well, started exercising), and over time actually noticed an improvement. Not everyone thinks it is…

The point is not that you should take up yoga, the real point is that keeping your body, mind and spirit in motion from a very young age, pays off in the long run! When I’m at the studio, I’m…

Canada’s minister of sport isn’t ruling out federal concussion legislation in the future, but says it’s more important for now to come up with a unified concussion policy for the country. Ontario passed Canada’s first concussion-related law earlier this week.…

PARIS France’s Sanofi said on Sunday that two late-stage Phase III clinical trials of its LixiLan diabetes drug had met their targets, readying it for approval in the United States in August and Europe early next year. LixiLan consists of…

Florida was in desperate need for blood donors in wake of the deadly attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday. “There is an urgent need right now for O negative, O positive and AB plasma blood donors following…

To gather data on brain activity in humans during such a task, Thackery Brown et al. exposed humans to a virtual environment in which they had navigate to five different locations. The next day, the participants were required to find…

LONDON British scientists say they have developed a model that can predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases – those such as Ebola and Zika that jump from animals to humans – based on changes in climate. Describing their model as “a…

One in four patients with COPD referred for exercise rehabilitation are frail, but nevertheless can respond favourably to rehabilitation and their frailty can be reversed, finds a new study led by King’s College London and Royal Brompton Harefield NHS Foundation…

Image copyrightScience Photo Library Image caption Cells from cervical screening tests are sent to the lab to be analysed One in three women over 50 has delayed or not attended their cervical screening test, which should take place every five…