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University of Leeds research has revealed that heart attack patients have a 46% increased chance of death within a month of discharge if they miss any one of nine types of care. There is also a 74% increased chance of dying within one year if any one component of care is missed.

Research continues to fuel significant advances against cancer. This progress has been spurred by federal investments in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI), according to the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) fourth annual Cancer Progress Report, released today.

New studies show companies pledging to help reduce obesity have cut trillions of calories from U.S. market and are major contributors to declining caloric purchases among American families.

We Day, a global series of inspirational and educational youth empowerment events, announces the first group of names in the star-studded lineup of speakers and performers at We Day Toronto (Air Canada Centre, October 2, 2014) and We Day Vancouver (Rogers Arena, October 22, 2014).

New research out of Washington University School of Medicine shows schizophrenia is not a single disease, but a group of eight genetically distinct disorders.

According to a recent report from the Center for Biological Diversity, the population of monarch butterflies has fallen by 90 percent in the past 20 years.

A new study has revealed that it is the wife’s happiness that plays key to a happy marriage for their husbands. According to the new research by Rutgers University finds that the more content the wife is with the long-term union, the happier the husband is with his life no matter how he feels about their nuptials.

More than a dozen children in New York have been diagnosed with EV- D68, a rare respiratory infection, the state Health Department said Friday. The enterovirus that had been making children sick across the United States has now reached the northeast side of the country.

Seven threatened species of shark and ray gain greater protection this Sunday with the introduction of regulations to prevent illegal and unsustainable fishing practices driven by international trade.

Electrons, like almost everything in life, are lazy. It has long been known that when traveling through conductive material, electrons always take the easiest route – that is, the path of least resistance. However, just like with people, the right kind of encouragement can make electrons take the harder road. Now, experts from MIT have discerned that graphene might be …

The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what’s called the “Copenhagen interpretation” — which holds that, in some sense, a single particle really is a wave, smeared out across the universe, that …