The commonly used painkiller diclofenac is associated with an increased risk of major cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, compared with no use, paracetamol use, and use of other tr..
The amount of physical activity that women undertake is not linked to their risk of early menopause, according to the largest study ever to investigate this question.
Scientists have discovered that the time of day influences the way mice respond to steroids. Researchers found that out of 752 genes which regulate lungs in mice, 230 genes work only in the day and 19..
Scientists report they were unable to reproduce the results of a well-known study showing that people are less likely to cheat on a task after making a list of the Ten Commandments.
Medical researchers are working toward a more focused drug delivery system that could target tumors lodged in the brainstem, the body's most precious system.
Doctors have long known that in the months after a heart attack or stroke, patients are more likely to have another attack or stroke. Now, an article explains what happens inside blood vessels to incr..
Scientists have discovered how prostate cancer can sometimes withstand and outwit a standard hormone therapy, causing the cancer to spread. Their findings also point to a simple blood test that may he..
Scientists have produced the most precise picture to date of population dynamics in fluctuating feast-or-famine conditions. Biological physicists found that bacterial population density is a function ..
New research indicates that what future precipitation California gets will be pretty much limited to the winter months — think deluge-type rainfall rather than snow — and non-winter months will be e..
Research indicates that head-starting — raising a species in captivity and releasing it into a protected habitat after it has grown large enough to be less vulnerable to predators — is a useful inte..