More women are receiving ADHD prescriptions
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently reported that the number of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medicine prescriptions for women increased nearly fivefold from 2003 to 2015.
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently reported that the number of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medicine prescriptions for women increased nearly fivefold from 2003 to 2015.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicted that this year’s flu will be the worst in almost 10 years.
Recently, the number of people suffering from Zika virus throughout the world has significantly decreased. However, biologists predict that Zika will return with a vengeance, potentially leading to more infections.
In a new study, published in Current Biology, geneticists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) have delved into the ancestry of the people of Easter Island. They used genomics to prove that the Polynesians on the island had no contact with the indigenous peoples of South America prior to 1722.
Over the past 200 years, since the start of the Industrial Revolution, pollution has increased sharply.
In a new study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of Maryland School of Medicine, microbiologists genetically modified mosquitoes to be more resistant to Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, by changing the composition of the mosquitoes’ gut bacteria.
Researchers at the Clinical Epidemiology Center of St. Louis, Missouri recently discovered that air pollution increases the risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD), which can ultimately develop into end stage renal disease (ESRD).
Engineers at the University of Houston have recently developed a new way to produce electronic artificial skin that allows a robot to sense differences between hot and cold.
A group of German and Austrian researchers from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences collaborated on a recent study titled “I Lie? We Lie! Why? Experimental evidence on a dishonesty shift in groups.”
Last month, psychologists at the University of Chicago discovered that speaking in a foreign language affects a person’s moral judgment. What they determined was that speaking in a foreign language encourages the speaker to act in favor of the “greatest good for the greatest number” of people.
Have you ever wondered what makes someone a good athlete? A recent study at the University of North Dakota suggests that the length of your fingers may indicate athletic ability.
Neurologists at Boston University recently discovered a direct relationship between drinking sugary drinks like soda and an increased risk for stroke and dementia.
Paleobiologists at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) recently found a new fossil that displayed the anatomy of a dinosaur predecessor known to be one of the earliest ancestors of the modern-day bird.
The circadian rhythm, also known as the biological clock or sleep-wake cycle, governs people’s sleeping habits. The biological clock works over a 24-hour period to maintain recurrent daily changes at both the microscopic cellular and macroscopic behavioral levels.
Researchers at Rice University recently studied the effects of loneliness on the symptoms of the common cold. They found that patients who identified as lonely reported more acute cold symptoms while more sociable patients tended to report feeling less under the weather.
Chinese and American researchers from various universities have collaborated and subsequently developed sea urchin spines into a new bone grafting material.
Neurologists at the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, recently developed a wearable, wireless arm patch that may help to relieve episodic migraine pain.
Scientists at the Imperial College London recently discovered that, by repurposing a drug typically used for weight loss, they could reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 80 percent.
Biologists at the Longevity Institute of the University of Southern California (USC) Leonard Davis School of Gerontology recently discovered a new diet that reduces the risk of age-related diseases.
Biologists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently discovered that it may take between 55 and 59 percent longer for couples in which both partners are obese to get pregnant.