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The American Heart Association issued new policy recommendations today on the use of e-cigarettes and their impact on tobacco-control efforts. The guidance was published in the association's journal, Circulation.

A group of undergrads from North Carolina State University have developed a nail polish that has a unique function - it detects date rape drugs in drinks. The company hopes to empower women by giving them another line of...

If you want a peek at the future of fitness tech, keep an eye on the ball chasers at this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament, which opens today in Flushing, New York. At select matches, ball boys will be sporting compres...

A British health worker was flown home from Sierra Leone after being infected with the deadly Ebola virus. The man is currently getting treatment at a London hospital.

MTV celebrity Diem Brown was an ovarian cancer survivor twice. Just recently however, she is diagnosed with colon cancer. Here's what happened.

(Duke University) Scientists searching for new drugs for malaria have identified a number of compounds -- some of which are in clinical trials to treat cancer -- that could lead to new ways to fight the disease. Research...

(Gladstone Institutes) Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes and University of California, San Francisco have shown that a loss of cells in the retina is one of the earliest signs of frontotemporal dementia in people w...

(Rockefeller University Press) A new study provides further detail into how male fruit flies ensure reproductive success by deploying exosomes to alter the mating behavior of females. The findings also identify a signali...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The aim of this closed-loop insulin delivery system is improved control of blood glucose levels throughout the day and night. But a new study in adults and adolescents fo...

(National University of Singapore) A team of scientists led by research associate professor Motomi Osato and professor Yoshiaki Ito from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore f...

(University of Texas at Austin) According to a new study by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Washington State University, male and female rats are affected differently by ancestral exposure to a com...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found one of the keys to why certain glioblastomas -- the primary form of a deadly brain cancer -- are...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a crucial link between high levels of insulin and pathways that lead to obesity, a finding that may have important implications ...

(American Chemical Society) Few ingredients come with as much baggage as monosodium glutamate. More commonly known as MSG, the compound has had a bad reputation for nearly 50 years, so we at Reactions felt it was time to...

(Burns McClellan) Kite Pharma Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing engineered autologous T cell therapy products for the treatment of cancer, today announced the publication of clinical ...

(University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) A study based on blood samples from more than 55,000 Danes conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital shows a dire...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) A family of proteins that promotes virus entry into cells also has the ability to block the release of HIV and other viruses, University of Missouri researchers have found.

(Wiley) A recent study has found that in states with higher Medicaid payments for office visits, Medicaid beneficiaries were more likely to be screened for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer.

(Neural Regeneration Research) Dr. Lijun Yang and co-workers from Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University in China prepared whole brain slices from a rat model of oxygen-glucose deprivation and explored d...

(Neural Regeneration Research) Hao Zhang and colleagues from China Rehabilitation Research Center found that acupuncture at the Yongquan acupoints induced stronger neuronal activity than acupuncture at the sham acupoints...

(American Society for Microbiology) A protein named p66ShcA shows promise as a biomarker to identify breast cancers with poor prognoses, according to research published ahead of print in the journal Molecular and Cellula...

(Saint Louis University) SLU Researchers will help parents apply strategies that could improve their child's behavioral problems.