CDC study: Former NFL players not at increased risk of suicide
Retired National Football League (NFL) players are at no greater risk of suicide when compared with the general U.S. population, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Researchers identify genetic links to educational attainment
An international team of researchers has identified 74 areas of the human genome associated with educational attainment. It is well known that social and other environmental factors influence education, but these findings, reported by the Social...
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Investigational malaria vaccine protects healthy U.S. adults for more than one year
An experimental malaria vaccine protected a small number of healthy, malaria-naïve adults in the United States from infection for more than one year after immunization, according to results from a Phase 1 trial described in the May 9th issue of Nature...
Laws to protect breastfeeding inadequate in most countries
Mother breasfteeding her baby in Bangladesh, 2015. Bangladesh has cut its child mortality rates by...
