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As new inventions hope to deal with workplace productivity and healthy lifestyle at the same time, will the new Hamster Wheel Standing Desk stand the test of time?

Sierra Leone authorities discovered over 50 new cases of Ebola and 92 dead bodies during the three-day national lockdown that had the nation's 6 million inhabitants ordered to remain indoors.

An organization called Grow4Vets recently hosted an event in Colorado, giving away pot to hundreds of veterans coping with PTSD. The organization is pushing for country-wide legalization of medical marijuana to treat vet...

Move over, clumsy, inconvenient breast pumps! The results of MIT's Hackathon to improve breast pump design are in and a promising new hands-free pump named Mighty Mom has been created.

Are cancer patients, who smoke, benefiting from e-cigarettes? A new study weighs in on the issue and discovers otherwise.

Health workers themselves are at risk of contracting Ebola, the very thing they are fighting. With locals adding to the danger, how will efforts to fight the outbreak progress?

Tuberculosis may have infected 700 infants and dozens of hospital workers over the course of a year, from an employee with the disease.

Planned Parenthood has made the process of obtaining birth control as easy as ordering pizza. The group just launched a pilot program in Minnesota and Washington that allows people to receive birth control through the ma...

The Operation Grow4Vets gave away hundreds of bags of marijuana-infused products during the Denver Cannabis Giveaway, which aims to offer military veterans an alternative treatment to prescription drugs for dealing with ...

(American Gastroenterological Association) The success of a colonoscopy is closely linked to good bowel preparation, with poor bowel prep often resulting in missed precancerous lesions, according to new consensus guideli...

(McMaster University) Findings emphasize the need to develop a standardized surveillance system for non-communicable diseases, such as CVD, cancer and lung diseases, by ethnic group in Canada.

(American Society for Microbiology) Influenza infection can enhance the ability of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae to cause ear and throat infections, according to research published ahead of print in the journal ...

(St. Michael's Hospital) Women who are about to be released from prison need to be more involved in their discharge planning if they are to successfully reintegrate into their communities and avoid returning to prison, a...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Fatigue, weight gain, chills, hair loss, anxiety, excessive perspiration -- these symptoms are a few of the signs that the thyroid gland has gone haywire. Harnessing electron mic...

(University of California - San Diego) The concept of a whole eye transplant seems futuristic, if not impossible. But with a $1 million grant from the US Department of Defense, researchers at University of California, Sa...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Mothers of children with autism are significantly less likely to report taking iron supplements before and during their pregnancies than the mothers of children who are de...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) An estimated 1.68 to 3.8 million sports-related concussions occur in the United States each year, and there are likely a significant number that go unreported. Current Concepts in Sports Concussio...

(American Association for Thoracic Surgery) The American Association for Thoracic Surgery has released new evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and treatment of perioperative and postoperative atrial fibrillation...

(Rockefeller University Press) Scientists have found a way to find the proverbial needle in the cancer antigen haystack. The results have the potential to completely change current approaches to generating anticancer vac...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) According to the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma, patients with severe injuries should be treated at level I or level II trauma centers. Those centers have the resources...

(University of Southampton) Results of a survey of more than 30,000 nurses across Europe show that nurses who work longer shifts and more overtime are more likely to rate the standard of care delivered on their ward as p...

(Brandeis University) If you're overweight, you may be at greater risk for stress-related diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to a new study by Brandeis University. In a recently p...