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Sometimes you don't need a pill to treat social anxiety disorder, a new study found. A good psychotherapy or a good talk will do.

Authorities found a five-year old boy sitting with a bag of cocaine during a drug bust. Test revealed the child has high level of cocaine in his system.

Latest study by the MIT found that amino acid levels in the blood stream could define if a person has early pancreatic cancer. Here's what the researchers said.

A compound found in Turmeric, which is commonly used in curry and other Indian cuisine, holds potentials in the field of regenerative medicine and in treating neuro-degenerative diseases such as dementia and ALS.

The tyrosine kinase inhibitor afatinib significantly improved progression-free survival compared to methotrexate in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck after failure of plat...

Pfizer's Xalkori drug was found to be effective against non-small-lung cancer patients with ROS1 gene abnormalities. The medicine decreased the size of tumors in 36 out of 50 patients with the rare disease.

(University of California - Davis Health System) Short questionnaires used to identify patients at risk for depression are linked with antidepressant medications being prescribed when they may not be needed, according to...

(Cornell Food & Brand Lab) Gourmet pizza in school? According to a new Food and Brand Lab pilot study, published in Appetite, chef-made meals can increase participation in the National School Lunch Program by 9 percent a...

(Oregon State University) Parents with children at home should use ventilation when cooking with a gas stove, researchers from Oregon State University are recommending, after a new study showed an association between gas...

(Douglas Mental Health University Institute) The number of days an expectant mother was deprived of electricity during Quebec's Ice Storm in 1998 predicts the epigenetic profile of her child, a new study finds.

(Springer) Dolphins are indeed sensitive to magnetic stimuli, as they behave differently when swimming near magnetized objects. So says Dorothee Kremers and her colleagues at Ethos unit of the Université de Rennes in Fr...

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist and mayor of Cali, Colombia, is the first winner of the Roux Prize, a new US$100,000 award and the largest of its kind....

(The JAMA Network Journals) Among patients with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery, infusion with the antihypertensive agent fenoldopam, compared with placebo, did not reduce the need for renal replacement therapy...

(University of California - Davis Health System) A 2004 California law mandating specific nurse-to-patient staffing standards in acute care hospitals significantly lowered job-related injuries and illnesses for both regi...

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have been awarded a $3.4M grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct...

(Myriad Genetics, Inc.) Data presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology annual meeting show that Myriad's Tumor BRACAnalysis CDx companion diagnostic test significantly improved the detection of cancer-causin...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded seven research contracts to discover and chara...

(Virginia Commonwealth University) Virginia Commonwealth University has received a five-year, $6 million grant for clinical research and education directed toward the identification, evaluation and development of safe an...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Combination therapy with both BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib and MEK inhibitor cobimetinib achieves greater progression-free survival and response rates than vemurafenib plus placebo i...

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) University of Illinois scientists have found compounds that boost liver detoxification enzymes nearly fivefold, and they've found them...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers seeking novel treatments for anemia found that giving acetate, the major component of household vinegar, to anemic mice stimulated the formation...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) The monoclonal antibody nivolumab achieves superior response rates and a longer duration of response than standard chemotherapy in patients whose melanoma has progressed after trea...