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If only gay men would be allowed to donate blood, more lives can be saved, says a new study. Here's how the blood donation policies could be amended.

No one is allowed to leave home in Sierra Leone during the three-day lockdown. Authorities hope that this could result in the discovery of yet unreported cases of Ebola.

Understanding of speedy effects antidepressant drugs have on the human brain could improve diagnosis, treatment of depression. Researchers see drugs altering connectivity in brain regions.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends receiving the nasal spray flu vaccine before the flu season hits. Nasal sprays may work better in younger children aged 2 to 8 years.

Angelina Jolie's announcement about her double mastectomy led to a surge in breast cancer testing in the UK until October 2013.

(University of Oxford) Dry roasted peanuts are more likely to trigger an allergy to peanuts than raw peanuts, suggests an Oxford University study involving mice. The researchers say that specific chemical changes caused ...

(University of Montreal) 'By focusing on the physical activity aspect of play, authorities put aside several aspects of play that are beneficial to young people's emotional and social health,' says Professor Frohlich, Un...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found that cancer cells traveling to other sites have different energy needs from their 'stay-at-hom...

(University of California - San Diego) Biochemists have developed a program that predicts the placement of chemical marks that control the activity of genes based on sequences of DNA. By comparing sequences with and with...