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Sugary beverages might soon come with a warning label if the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act is ratified on senate floor next week. Advocates claim consumption of such is unhealthy.

Testing of drinking water in Portland shows E. coli contamination. Residents urged to boil water before drinking or cooking with it.

Children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes are at risk of a complication that could have affect on memory and attention, researchers warn. The changes are seen for six months after diagnosis but they could have long-l...

People, especially women are more stressed at home when compared to the workplace reveals a new study. This is true of women who do not have any children.

A new study has shown that mental illness is capable of shortening your life, more so than a person who smokes 20 cigarettes per day.

Lansal, operating as Hot Mama's Foods, is pulling more than 14,000 pounds of humus and dip products from the shelves following a routine test that found a possible contamination of listeria monocytogenes.

Drug to treat a particular form of muscular dystrophy approved in Europe. Approval granted under a special measure that allows drugs to be offered when there is no other treatment option for a life-threatening illness.

(University of Glasgow) 'Seeing is believing,' so the idiom goes, but new research suggests vision also involves a bit of hearing too.

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered a signaling pathway in cancer cells that controls their ability to invade nearby tissues in a...

(The Lancet) A study published in The Lancet Oncology journal reveals a high demand for costly cancer treatment among refugees from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Syria, with host countries struggling to find the money...

(Arizona State University) Using molecules of DNA like an architectural scaffold, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzym...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a mutated gene common to adenosquamous carcinoma tumors -- the first known unique molecular...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) 'Aha' moments are rare in medical research, scientists say. As rare, they add, as finding mice with Mohawk-like hairstyles. But both events happened i...

(Canadian Association for Neuroscience) Research presented by Dr. Lynn Raymond, from the University of British Columbia, shows that blocking a specific class of glutamate receptors can improve motor learning and coordina...

(University of British Columbia) An in-depth genomic analysis published today in Nature by University of British Columbia researchers reveals that the Greenish Warbler's genetic migration through central Asia involved pe...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Myeloid-derived suppressor cells are found abundantly in the microenvironment around tumors. They suppress immune response and promote cancer progression. They've been h...

Antibodies against C. suis are transferred via the sow's very first milk to the piglets immediately after birth. This was discovered by veterinarian and parasitologist Lukas Schwarz and his colleagues in 2013. These find...

Approximately two million pounds of ground beef tainted with Escherichia Coli O157:H7 are being recalled by a federal agency. As per reports, the contaminated beef may have already reached ten states in the U.S.