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Men with two or more defects in semen or sperm that renders them infertile face increase risk of early death, study finds. Finding may apply to infertile women as well, researchers say.

Patients with pancreatic cancer have a different and distinct profile of specific bacteria in their saliva compared to healthy controls and even patients with other cancers or pancreatic diseases, according to research p...

New research reveals deficiency could bring greater risk for cancer diagnosis and researchers recommend annual testing of Vitamin D levels.

Another research report reveals little or poor sleep early on iin life, as early as the infant stage, may be a factor in why children become obese. The new research calls it a strong risk factor.

Lyme disease on the rise in U.S. 300,000 stricken annually, as opposed to the previously reported count of 20,000 to 30,000 reported cases.

Cigarette and cigar smokers looking to quit may be inclined to try e-cigarettes or even the popular hookah option, but new studies are showing that neither alternative smoking option may be a good health choice.

Yet another report states the alternative smoking device is not as safe or harmless as many might believe. Researcher says e-cigs have "measurable detrimental effects on health."

Men who are infertile because of defects in their semen appear to be at increased risk of dying sooner than men with normal semen, according to a study led by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Surprisingly a third person infected by the deadly MERS CoV appears to be well without any report of being hospitalized or sick. But healthcare professionals stand by their warnings to monitor health for possible signs.

(University of Otago) New research out of New Zealand's world-renowned Dunedin Multidisciplinary Study does not support claims that fluoridating water adversely affects children's mental development and adult IQ.The rese...

(American Gastroenterological Association) The editors of Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute, are pleased to announce the publication of this year's highly an...

(University of Edinburgh) Premature babies' risk of brain injury is influenced by their genes, a new study suggests. Researchers have identified a link between injury to the developing brain and common variation in genes...

(European Society of Cardiology) Home telemonitoring is equally effective in ICD and CRT-D patients, a subanalysis of the IN-TIME trial has shown. The findings were presented for the first time today at the Heart Failure...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Two studies of the anti-depressive drug duloxetine, a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, compared its effectiveness and safety to either fluoxetine or placebo i...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Selection of men for active surveillance should be based not on the widely used conventional biopsy, but with a new, image-guided targeted prostate biopsy.

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Soon, making and improving medical drugs could be as easy for chemists as stacking blocks is for a child. University of Illinois chemist Martin Burke, a pioneer of a technique...

(Pollock Communications) In an effort to help manage the hypertension epidemic, leading scientists from the American Society of Hypertension, American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

(Institut Laue-Langevin) Results from neutron spin-echo analysis at the Institut Laue-Langevin and the National Center of Neutron Research in the United States are an important advance towards enabling subcutaneous injec...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Eukaryotes -- organisms whose cells possess a nucleus and internal membranes -- first appeared on earth around two billion years ago, when one prokaryotic cell engulfed another. The result...

(The University of Montana) A new paper co-written by four University of Montana researchers finds that humans have more than doubled tropical nitrogen inputs.

(European Society of Cardiology) A novel device implanted under the skin like a pacemaker successfully treats central sleep apnea in heart failure patients, according to research presented today at the Heart Failure Cong...

(Washington University School of Medicine) Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head. This new generation of neuroimaging co...