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Illustration of bacteria in the human gut. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health A new study, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and led by an Upstate Medical University professor, has found that compared with standard antibiotic treatment, stool transplantation can increase the number of people recovering

Knapsack task and basic optimizing behaviors. a, List of fractal images that symbolized the items in stimulus set 1 (left column), stimulus set 2 (middle column) and the items’ reward sizes (right column). b, Schematic representation of the knapsack task. The animals initiated the knapsack trials by touching a red central target. After initiation, an

To achieve the Cancer Moonshot goal, cancer death rates must decline faster. Credit: Shiels M, et al. Cancer Discovery, 2023 Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have outlined opportunities for achieving President Biden and First Lady Biden's Cancer Moonshot national goal of reducing the cancer death rate by at least 50% over the

Science & Nature Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nearly one in four Indonesian adolescents didn't seek health care when they thought they needed it over the past year, according to new research led by Burnet Institute and collaborators across Australia and Indonesia. More than 2,000 adolescents in Jakarta and South Sulawesi aged between 16 and 18 years participated in

Science & Nature Phosphate minerals such as those in the apatite group tend to be the dominant forms of phosphorus in minerals on the...

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff April 8, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from researchers in the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity (LEAD) Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus shows that 90 percent of pregnant women do not receive adequate nutrients during pregnancy from food alone and must look to supplements to fill that deficit. However, they also discovered