Restricted sugar intake during early life is linked to lower risks of several heart conditions in adulthood, including heart attack, heart failure, and stroke, finds a study published by The BMJ using ...

Meanwhile, in attempts to address long-standing thyroid cancer concerns, a research team conducted a 350,000-person analysis ...

Outside the field of statistics, the literature on observational studies offers advice about research designs or strategies for judging whether or not an association is causal, such as multiple ...

Despite your best efforts to hide away your dog's favorite treats, it may still figure out where you put them. Both dogs and wolves are capable of finding food hidden by a human if they watched them ...

Researchers at a New York City hospital several years ago conducted a test of the widely-accepted notion that skipping breakfast can make you fat. For some nutritionists, this idea is an article of ...

A natural experiment is an empirical study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) are exposed to the experimental and control conditions that are determined by nature or by other factors ...