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ALS patients received better care if they were treated by a neurologist, a new study published in PLOS One has found. But researchers found that Black, older and socially disadvantaged ALS patients were less likely to see a neurologist, raising concerns about equity in treating the deadly disease.

College Park, Md. – Most people use Google Street View to find their way. Dr. Quynh Nguyen, an epidemiologist and statistician at the University of Maryland School of Public Health, uses it to locate spots where your journey might abruptly end. In a study published June 6 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) of Injury Prevention, Nguyen identifies uses AI tools to identify key environmental elements impacting car-related collisions as well as cyclist-related and pedestrian-related accidents.

New research led by University of New South Wales scientists supports a role for fruit -- but not vegetable -- intake in protecting against depression.

Oxford University team say thousands of lives could be saved by technology that finds hidden data in CT scans

Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that is implied by gravitational effects that can’t be explained by general relativity

Press release of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

The widely held view that sperm counts in men are dropping around the world may be wrong, according to a new study by University of Manchester, Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada and Cryos International, Denmark. Using data from 6,758 men from four cities in Denmark applying to be sperm donors at the world’s largest sperm bank, Cryos Int...

Where there's smoke, there's not always fire. Wildfire smoke drifted to nearly every lake in North America for at least one day per year from 2019 to 2021, found a UC Davis study.