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A systematic review and meta-analysis found children who drank whole milk had 40 per cent lower odds of being overweight or obese compared with children who consumed reduced-fat milk.

Brain imaging of pathological tau-protein "tangles" reliably predicts the location of future brain atrophy in Alzheimer's patients a year or more in advance, according to a new study.

Testicular cancer recurrence can be prevented using half the amount of chemotherapy that is currently used, according to the results of a new clinical trial.

Latest findings suggest that the chemicals, which are no longer produced in the United States but persist in the environment, may have lasting health effects even at low levels.

In a new study, a team tests the notion that a cell's identity can be described solely by the genes it expresses. The study advocates a more 'multimodal' approach to defining cell identity.

The drug, HU-308, lessens involuntary movements called dyskinesias, a side effect from years of treatment for Parkinson's disease.

UNIGE researchers oversaw a new system of maths learning whose purpose is to promote the use of arithmetic formulas at an early age. After a year, they observed a leap in students’ performance.

How much you enjoy the new Star Wars movie will depend a lot on your expectations going in, a new study suggests.

Glioblastoma organoids grown from patient tissue can be rapidly deployed to investigate personalized treatment approaches.

Researchers report that accumulating amyloid protein occurred faster among persons deemed to have "objectively-defined subtle cognitive difficulties" (Obj-SCD) than among persons considered to be "cognitively normal," offering a potential new early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease.