Most psychiatric disorders - including depression -- do not predict future violent behavior, according to a longitudinal study of delinquent youth. Some delinquent youth with current psychiatric…

A new study found that alternative providers of primary care in the UK's NHS do not perform as well as traditional GP practices. Alternative providers have been contracted to offer primary care in…

Since 2006, some schools have been giving up desks in the belief that sedentary education is doing a disservice to children. Another study adds to that debate. The Texas A&M Health Science Center…

Researchers have described the role of the calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) in causing asthma, a disease which affects 300 million people worldwide, by using mouse models of asthma and human airway…

Up to 6 out of 1,000 children worldwide may be on the spectrum of an autistic disorder (ASD) and 50 percent of those kids demonstrate serious and disruptive behavior, including tantrums, aggression,…

What happens when a patient with multiple sclerosis (MS) who is clinically stable stops taking their medication? An international, multi-site study found almost 40 percent of patients had some…

You may find these remarks cynical. You may find them helpful. Strategy Cons: This is the age of corporate short-termism. Nothing matters except this quarter’s returns. Strategy implies long-range…

Can earthquakes ever be predicted? This question is timely after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal recently. If authorities had more warning that the earthquake was coming, they may have…

Married people have better overall health and longevity than single people, say epidemiologists, but more is not always better.  A recent prospective multicenter observational study assessed the…

First collisions of protons at CERN's Large Hadron Collider are expected to start the first or second week of June. The LHC was restarted in early April after a two-year pause to upgrade the machine…