Month: May 2011

Using simple robots to simulate genetic evolution over hundreds of generations, Swiss scientists provide quantitative…

Scientists have discovered a way to wake up the immune system to fight cancer by…

A new study shows that the brain has built-in mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction…

The effects of nicotine upon brain regions involved in addiction mirror those of cocaine, according…

How much would you pay for an extra year of healthy life? The cost of…

Only about half of new drugs approved in the last decade had comparative effectiveness data…

Implementing structured exercise training, including aerobic, resistance or both, was associated with a greater reduction…

Breast cancers that are first detectable in the interval between screening mammograms are more likely…

The concepts now at the center of the health care quality movement, adopted in large…

Food restriction in 41 different strains of mice showed that, contrary to a widely held…