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Researchers have pinpointed a possible explanation as to why you get less sleep as you get older. The culprit may be a bundle of neurons in the brain.

Teens are using less sunscreen, and that's a problem according to a new study. The study found that the number of teens who use sunscreen has dropped by about 11 percent over the last 10 years despite all the warnings ab...

Scientists are finding that the number of babies born with compromised immune systems is higher than we originally thought. They are finding that these numbers are one in 58,000 rather than one in 100,000.

The importance of exercise will never cease to surprise you. This time, it's associated with decreased risk of developing atrial fibrillation in postmenopausal women.

Thanks to effective vaccination, polio is considered nearly eradicated. Each year only a few hundred people are stricken worldwide. However, scientists of the University of Bonn, together with colleagues from Gabon, are ...

Acute pancreatitis involves the pancreas digesting itself resulting in severe abdominal pain, vomiting and systemic inflammation. Every year in the UK around 20,000 patients are diagnosed with the disease resulting in 10...

Loss of brain cells may be responsible for sleeping disorders in elderly people. Researchers say that a group of cells in human brains act as a sleep regulator, and loss of these cells may affect sleep.

A study suggests that there has been a major shift from inpatient to outpatient urologic surgery procedure. This shift in procedure is believed to have increased the "failure to rescue" (FTR) mortality rates.

Drawings made by four-year-old children may predict future intelligence, according to a new study out of London.

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