Pursed lip breathing is a breathing technique that can help people get more air into their lungs. This technique may…
Medical News Today: Could certain gut bacteria protect against food allergy?
New research shows that babies with food allergy have missing gut bacteria. Giving the bacteria to allergy-prone mice protected them…
Cholesterol medication could invite diabetes, study suggests
A study of thousands of patients’ health records found that those who were prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins had at least double…
Video games offer clues to help curb animal disease outbreaks
As Asia and Europe battle African swine fever outbreaks, new research shows how farmers’ risk attitudes affect the spread of…
Power of simple physical models for complex protein machines
The function of protein machines in biological cells is so complex that even supercomputers cannot predict their cycles at atomic…
Lifelong ill-health after exposure to chemical weapons
People exposed to chemical warfare agents (CWAs) often incur chronic damage to their lungs, skin and eyes, for example. They…
Women exposed to common antibacterial chemical more likely to break a bone
Women exposed to triclosan are more likely to develop osteoporosis, according to a new study.
Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity, study suggests
Eleven-month-old infants can learn to associate the language they hear with ethnicity, recent research suggests. Eleven-month-old infants looked more at…
Remote-controlled drug delivery implant size of grape may help chronic disease management
People with chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes and heart disease may one day forego the daily regimen of pills and,…
Scientists closer to unraveling mechanisms of speech processing in the brain
A new study that sheds light on how the brain processes language could lead to a better understanding of autism…