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More than 8,000 women filed a class-action lawsuit against the Johns Hopkins Hospital for failing to protect them against Nikita Levy, the gynecologist who committed suicide after he was discovered filming his patients d...

Treatment of HIV patients co-infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with an anti-retroviral drug therapy not only tackles HIV, but also reduces HCV replication, according to a new study lead by a University of Cincinn...

It took a lot of exercise and a whole lot of eating for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to become Hercules. Here's what he ate to do it.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new combination pain pill from the maker of OxyContin that is designed to discourage abuse by painkiller addicts.

A study in Australia shows that paracetamol (overseas version of acetaminophen) does nothing to relieve lower back pain. It may work effectively on other types of pain; researchers are looking into specifics of back pain...

The largest study to date on military personnel and a connection to childhood abuse and violence indicates the military life is likely viewed as a refuge for such victims. Researchers say much more data is needed to make...

Efforts to curb child obesity in the U.S. appear to be paying off. Researchers said that the incidence of abdominal obesity in children and adolescents have leveled off in the last eight years.

Scientists have long known that providing supplemental food for wildlife, or resource provisioning, can sometimes cause more harm than good. University of Georgia ecologists have developed a new mathematical model to tea...

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