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While many kids dream of becoming a professional or Olympic athlete, there may be physical and emotional drawbacks to ...

It's obvious to most people as soon as they set foot in a place they know well—like their childhood bedroom or a former ...

Eating some common food preservatives is linked to a slightly higher risk of eventually developing cancer and diabetes, ...

A 17-year longitudinal study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev followed children from birth to adolescence to explore ...

In its effort to correlate genomic structure with gene function, the 4D Nucleome Consortium (4DN), led by Job Dekker, Ph.D., ...

When people stop taking the new generation of weight-loss drugs they pile back on the kilos four times faster than they would after ending diet and exercise regimens, new research found Thursday.

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U.S. adolescents spend more than one hour per day on smartphones during school hours, with social media accounting for the ...

A new UCLA study reveals that a widely used federal hospital safety metric is fundamentally flawed when applied to emergency ...

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Randomized clinical trials remain the gold standard for establishing a medication's effects, producing the evidence by which ...