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Google’s ‘wearable computer’ has been on the market for less than 2 years. A new study reports the first evidence of addictive behavior associated with the device.

Months after Harvard University announced a new, tougher policy against campus sexual assault, a group of Harvard law professors is blasting the rules as unfair.

Obtaining access to private outpatient psychiatric care in the Boston, Chicago and Houston metropolitan areas is difficult, even for those with private insurance or those willing to pay out of…

Men angry and rejected, women sociable and mentally ill – a current study by the MedUni Vienna demonstrates that these gender stereotypes prevail when Austrian daily newspapers report on suicide.

Childbirth is physically intense and, for many women, it is the most painful experience they will have.

Wherever you are right now: squeeze your glutes. Feel that? You just also contracted your pelvic floor too, whether you wanted to or not. Scientists have found themselves surprised to discover an involuntary link in the brain between the pelvic floor a…

A new study finds that a chemical found in broccoli and other vegetables – sulforaphane – could help improve some behavioral symptoms in people with autism.

A discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain cancer — has lead to the opening of a human phase I/II clinical trial as early as Spring 2015, scientists report.

For decades, scientists thought that neurons in the brain were born only during the early development period and could not be replenished. More recently, however, they discovered cells with the ability to divide and turn into new neurons in specific br…

Two potential treatments for traumatic brain injury have been found to be most effective when given at different stages after the injury has occurred. Laboratory studies have confirmed that changes in brain water channels over time play a critical role…