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Individuals with celiac disease may now find it much easier to buy gluten-free foods with the implementation of FDA's ruling on gluten-free labeling.

A new California health insurance database, Cal Index, is expected to serve 9 million patients by the end of the year. The $80 million effort is being built by two insurance companies.

Consumption of a type of starch that acts like fiber may help reduce colorectal cancer risk associated with a high red meat diet, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American As...

Deciding whether people are narcissistic may be as simple as asking them straight out, according to a recent study.

People with sleep apnea have many concerns, but they can take comfort in the fact that a recent study shows that there is no definitive link between sleep apnea and cancer.

Patients with ALS may have some hope for autonomy in their lives after Accenture and Royal Philips announced a wearable display that could monitor brainwaves.

Gluten-free foods will now be regulated by the FDA in order to ensure that their labels are not misleading.

Nine years after diagnosis, 9.3 percent of U.S. cancer survivors were current smokers and 83 percent of these individuals were daily smokers who averaged 14.7 cigarettes per day, according to a report in Cancer Epidemiol...

Researchers in the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS) have achieved the first conclusive non-invasive measurement of neural signaling in the spinal cords of healthy human volunteers.

Drugs used to treat HIV may also aid in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Researchers say that trials to develop a drug to treat MS are already ongoing in labs.

An experimental drug - ZMapp - was used effectively on two Americans infected with the Ebola virus. Whether the antibody will be able to successfully eradicate Ebola in the long term is questionable.

One simple and straightforward question would allow you to determine if a person is a narcissist or not. Researchers found a correlation between the results of the Single Item Narcissism Scale, or SINS with the more esta...

New research reveals nearly 10 percent of cancer survivors who smoked prior to diagnosis tend to keep smoking after treatment and surviving cancer. Researchers say greater attention must be paid to helping cancer survivo...

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