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Kids with public insurance are slightly more likely to receive medical care that they don’t need than those ...

Many surgeons write prescriptions for opioid pain medications four times larger than what their patients will actually use ...

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Childbirth is arguably the most traumatic event the human body can undergo

Researchers measured telomere length of poor and moderate-income whites, African-Americans, and people of Mexican descent in Detroit neighborhoods.

During the past two decades, astronomers have discovered 300 “hot Jupiters,” but for the first time they’ve found ...

Researchers examined marital changes one year after the birth of the second child

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It's becoming increasingly common for people, especially adults, to not sleep through the night.

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The depressed individuals showed reduced opioid release in brain regions regulating stress, mood, and motivation.

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Understanding the pathways involved in addictive-like behavior could provide new therapeutic avenues for treating addiction and other compulsive ...

When a couple is expecting a baby, it's not just the mother that goes through hormonal changes.

Last year, breast milk donated by almost 163,000 women fed 183,000 babies in Brazil. The system of collection ...

Impending fatherhood can lower two hormones—testosterone and estradiol—for men, even before their babies are born, a new University ...

An odd, iridescent material that's puzzled physicists for decades turns out to be an exotic state of matter ...

The number of adolescents prescribed these medications, and the number misusing them, is disturbing for several reasons.

The researchers say it's important to educate women better about the risks and benefits of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy

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Women going through menopause most likely think of it as the time for an end to predictable monthly ...