According to a new study from the University of Rochester, playing action video games sharpens vision. In tests of visual acuity that assess the ability to see objects accurately in a cluttered space, game players scored higher than their non-playing peers.
Patients in Liverpool are to trial a new therapy for pancreatic cancer — a disease which sees most sufferers die within a year of diagnosis.
Opposition to current drug safety legislation is growing, as a group of 22 experts on drug safety and regulation and a coalition of 12 patient, consumer, science, and public health organizations issue two separate open letters to lawmakers.
Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center had a mystery on their hands. A 51-year-old physician colleague who looked the picture of health?no cardiovascular risks, a marathon runner who had exercised vigorously each day for 30 years?had just flunked a calcium screening scan of his heart.
Adult men who grew up in one-parent households are more likely to have been abused as children, according to a study conducted at the University of Pennsylvania?s School of Medicine.
A 12-point screening process could help reduce sudden cardiac death in high school and college competitive athletes, according to an updated American Heart Association scientific statement.
Chances of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting are twice as high if bystanders perform chest-compression-only resuscitation instead of traditional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with mouth-to-mouth breathing.
Does God or some other type of transcendent entity answer prayer? The answer, according to a new Arizona State University study published in the March journal Research on Social Work Practice, is ?yes.?
A small but telling study from the Johns Hopkins Children?s Center reveals an ominous trend: more than expected, obesity shadows Baltimore?s homeless children and their caregivers, putting them at high risk for heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, among other conditions.
Ultrasound-based tests allowing women undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to count their chickens before they’ve hatched may provide alternatives to the hormone-based tests used today.