Day November 30, 2016

Media captionAndre Calantzopoulos tells Radio 4’s Today he wants to move away from conventional cigarettes Philip Morris has launched a new, less harmful cigarette in the UK which it says could mean it stops selling conventional cigarettes altogether. The so…

There should be more safety measures in place at trampoline parks, a group of organisations including British Gymnastics has said. The group has written a series of rules which they believe will make trampoline parks safer. Although parks have to…

Women are more likely to have a successful pregnancy if they conceive sooner after a miscarriage rather than waiting, researchers had said. The University of Aberdeen team found conceptions within six months were less likely to result in another miscarriage…

More than 1,000 medications, with acetaminophen being the most common, have been associated with drug-induced liver injury (DILI). Diagnosis can be challenging due to the multitude of contributing factors, and timely recognition and clinical response may mean the difference between…

Bottom Line: An optical fiber probe can distinguish cancer tissue and normal tissue at the margins of a tumor being excised, in real time, by detecting the difference in pH between the two types of tissue. This has the potential…

One out of every six American women has experienced a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault or rape in her lifetime, according to the National Institute of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While more than…

A University of Georgia research team has shown for the first time that participation in a prevention program known as the Strong African American Families Program, which enhances supportive parenting and strengthens family relationships, removes the effects of poverty on…

In a remote area of north-central Tanzania, men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt for their next meal. Dinner could come in the form of a small bird, a towering giraffe or something…

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Researchers have discovered that mice with Huntington’s disease (HD) suffer defects in muscle maturation that may explain some symptoms of the disorder. The study, “Progressive Cl? channel defects reveal disrupted skeletal muscle maturation in R6/2 Huntington’s mice,” which will be…