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Un escáner cerebral podría predecir intentos de quitarse la vida (Universidad Carnegie Mellon).

La forma en que el cerebro procesa ciertas palabras podría predecir el riesgo de suicidio

May 15, 2019 at 11:07 a.m.

Cuando la angustia, la depresión o el desánimo de una persona parecen haber empeorado, es hora de hacerle una pregunta de peso: ¿Estás pensando en hacerte daño? Si tan solo...

Scientists engineer proteins that caused obese animals to lose weight and lower cholesterol

August 22, 2019 at 1:20 a.m.

As the U.S. obesity rate has galloped toward 40%, doctors, drug designers and dispirited dieters have all wondered the same thing: What if a pill could deliver the benefits of...

The latest stats from the CDC show that just short of 4 in 10 American adults had a body mass index that put them in obese territory. In addition, just under 2 in 10 American children are now considered obese as well.

Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. adults are now obese, CDC says

August 22, 2019 at 1:16 a.m.

Americans' obesity rates have reached a new high-water mark. Again. In 2015 and 2016, just short of 4 in 10 American adults had a body mass index that put them...

Tres estadounidenses ganaron el Premio Nobel de Medicina por descubrir los secretos del reloj biológico

May 15, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.

El Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina fue para un trío de científicos estadounidenses cuyo trabajo rebeló el mecanismo de un reloj celular que regula los cambios biológicos en organismos...

Scientists may have found a way to diagnose CTE in football players while they’re still alive

May 10, 2019 at 7:51 p.m.

It is a humbling but very motivating fact that a person currently has to die before doctors can make a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease that...

Guns kill nearly 1,300 children in the U.S. each year and send thousands more to hospitals

August 21, 2019 at 11:49 p.m.

Handguns and other firearms cause the deaths of more children in the United States each year than the flu or asthma, according to a comprehensive new report on gun violence...

Would you deliver an electric shock at someone’s orders? New study shows the answer is likely still yes

August 21, 2019 at 10:35 p.m.

More than 50 years ago, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram found that, when prodded by someone in charge, just about every one of us would do something that most would...

A researcher works with donor cells to test a new treatment for blood cancer, in this file photo.

Cancer death rate now 25% lower than 25 years ago, report says

June 6, 2018 at 10:22 a.m.

In the year to come, an estimated 1,688,780 people in the United States are expected to get a cancer diagnosis, and cancer will claim the lives of a projected 600,920....

Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet

June 6, 2018 at 10:44 a.m.

The aging brain is a shrinking brain, and a shrinking brain is, generally speaking, a brain whose performance and reaction time are declining: That is a harsh reality of growing...

For the first time in nearly four decades, Americans in the continental United States will get to see a total solar eclipse.

Seven events that will rock the science world in 2017

August 21, 2019 at 9:32 p.m.

Science never ceases to surprise us. In a year jampacked with discoveries, some of the biggest revelations of 2016 seemed to come from out of the blue. Just a few...

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