According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction is a “complex disease,” and “quitting takes more than good intentions or a strong will.” The NIH also states that many addictive substances…

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine’s departments of Biochemistry and Pathology have utilized codon optimization to create a genetic engineering technique that persuades plants to produce foreign…

Researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) are questioning the validity of bite-mark identification as trial evidence after reviews of empirical findings point to a lack of reliability and validity of the most fundamental claims…

CHICAGO – The American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) has awarded Thomas J. Balshi, DDS, PhD, FACP, the Dan Gordon Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the advancement of prosthodontics. Balshi was among the developers of…

New York University College of Dentistry’s (NYU Dentistry) Nicola Partridge, PhD, has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to investigate potential…

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The perception that if you don’t have pain, you don’t have a problem appears to apply to patients at long-term care facilities, according to University at Buffalo (UB) researchers, who report that nearly 90% of patients at…

GENEVA — In advance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, a global health day dedicated to support the fight against the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidelines on HIV self-testing to improve access to HIV diagnosis.…

Big data derived from electronic health records, social media, the internet and other digital sources have the potential to provide more timely and detailed information on infectious disease threats or outbreaks than traditional…

Although underserved patients often turn to hospital emergency departments for routine dental care, emergency departments can’t treat dental conditions — they can only prescribe medication to ease pain. This led investigators at Boston…

Along with a steady increase in oral and oropharyngeal cancers diagnosed in the United States — estimated at 48,330 new cases this year — the five-year survival rate has also risen. While the rising survival rate is good news, many…