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The CDC is investigating if the anthrax bacteria sent to laboratories were inactivated. Scientists and staff are feared to have been exposed to the deadly bacteria.

Teens who sex text more are likely to be having sex, as are teens who just send a bucket load of no-sex texts every day, claims new research. What's under debate is whether sex text is a risk behavior or digital teen fli...

A recent study conducted by the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion claims one in 10 deaths among working-age adults can be attributed to excessive drinking. Total death count for alcohol-attribute...

Amidst shortage of donor sperm in the UK, study finds sperm from donors between 41 to 45 years old have slightly increased odds for live birth. Current guidelines require donors not to be older than 40.

Researchers found they can preserve rat livers for several days using a technique known as supercooling. The method may improve organ transplantation and donation once it is found to also work with humans.

If successful, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan could reduce the incidence of HIV and AIDS in New York to below epidemic levels from the current 3,000 new cases of HIV per year to 750 by 2020.

New York Senator Charles Schumer said poisonings from liquid nicotine used for e-cigarettes are already nearly double this year, with 70 reports. There were 46 incidents in 2013.

The Court of Appeals ruled that New York City can't instate the Portion Cap Rule, which would have banned sale of sugary drinks from being sold at restaurants and movie theaters in the city.

Paraplegics are seeing a new generation of technologies to allow them to walk again. Are wheelchairs about to become a thing of the past?

(Brown University) In their quest to understand what kind of hunter the extinct marsupial Thylacine was, two paleobiologists built a dataset of forelimb bone measurements that predict the predation style of a wide variet...

(Global Health Strategies) More than 800 leaders and public health experts from around the world opened a landmark two-day meeting in Johannesburg to review new data and call for accelerated action to improve maternal, n...

(University of California - San Francisco) The popular idea that Northern Europeans developed light skin to absorb more UV light so they could make more vitamin D -- vital for healthy bones and immune function -- is ques...

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) The same types of drugs that help reduce watery eyes and runny noses during allergy season might also help ward off tumors too. A new research report appearing ...

(NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) Emotional and behavioral problems show up even with low exposure to lead, and as blood lead levels increase in children, so do the problems, according to research...

(Penn State) Malaria parasites alter the chemical odor signal of their hosts to attract mosquitoes and better spread their offspring, according to researchers, who believe this scent change could be used as a diagnostic ...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center researchers developed a new way to identify possible therapeutic targets for patients with drug resistant melanoma. It involves using liquid chrom...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new study by Dr. Inna Slutsky of Tel Aviv University pinpoints the precise molecular mechanism that may trigger elevated neuronal activity in Alzheimer's patients, which subseq...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Zebrafish, a model organism that plays an important role in biological research and the discovery and development of new drugs and cell-based therapies, can form embryoni...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Recently published findings in Annals of Internal Medicine by Steven Lipshultz, M.D., Wayne State University professor and chair of pediatrics and pedi...

(Population Council) A new study by Population Council demographer John Bongaarts has found that mortality projections from most low-mortality countries are more pessimistic than they should be. Existing projections fail...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) There is 'little evidence' that the use of conventional fertility hormones used for ovarian stimulation in the treatment of infertility increases the long-term risk...

(Wiley) New research reports that more than one third of total knee replacements in the US were classified as 'inappropriate' using a patient classification system developed and validated in Spain. The study, published i...