Month: March 2013

More than half of lower-back MRIs ordered at two Canadian hospitals were either inappropriate or…

Preventing avoidable readmissions could result in improved patient care and significant cost savings. In a…

Researchers have identified areas off southern California with high numbers of whales and assessed their…

A team studying alcohol addiction has new research that might shed light on why some…

The virus that causes cold sores, along with other viral or bacterial infections, may be…

Biologists have found that neural-crest stem cells–multipotent, migratory cells unique to vertebrates that give rise…

Pregnant women in Ghana who slept on their back (supine sleep) were at an increased…

Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to…

For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes — a…

The demise of the dodo is one of the better known bird extinctions in the…