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(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) The current Ebola outbreak now requires a 'rapid response at a massive global scale,' according to experts at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

(Mayo Clinic) Physicians envision a future in which genomic data from patients is heavily used to manage care -- but experts have questioned the accuracy and reliability of these analyses. Now, a study by 150 researchers...

Obese Americans will soon have a new drug to help them lose weight, but what is Contrave?

Eating fish twice a week can protect women from acquired hearing loss, study suggests. Finding is one more example of health benefits in omega-3 fatty acids a seafood diet provides, researchers say.

A woman who had trouble with balance most of her life and who only started to talk intelligibly when she turned 6 years old was found to be missing her cerebellum, the part of the brain involved in balance and some cogni...

Overweight people subjected to ridicule over their size tend to gain pounds, not lose them, according to new research.

Amid recent discussion about the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Penn Medicine physicians say that high-income countries like the United States have an obligation to help those affected by the outbreak and to advance resear...

He's not a dentist, but Christopher Miller is focused on fluoride. Two studies from his Brandeis University lab provide new insights into the mechanisms that allow bacteria to resist fluoride toxicity, information that c...

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Will Ferrell is hosting a gaming event on Twitch with the aim of raising funds for children who have cancer. Now an Indiegogo campaign, Ferrell hopes it could raise $375,000.