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Tom Cutinella died at 16 years of age after being involved in a collision during a high school football game on Long Island. Experts are debating the role of the sport on head injuries and preventive measures.

Australian researchers have found that sildenafil, the active ingredient of anti-impotence drug Viagra, may cause vision impairment in men. The side-effect affects men who carry a common mutation for eye disease.

Treatment of AIDS and HIV may be endangered in India by lack of a medicine containing a combination of the prescription drugs tenofovir and lamivudine.

(Oregon Health & Science University) The Kay Yow Cancer Fund, in partnership with the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and The V Foundation for Cancer Research, has awarded a $100,000 young women's breast cancer re...

Jealous, moody, anxious women may be at increased risk for Alzheimer's. A new study shows that the more time women spend stressed, anxious, and withdrawn, the more likely they are to develop dementia.

Alzheimer's disease has been successfully reversed in a handful of patients for the first time, according to a researcher from the University of California.

Prescription drug abusers are at risk of potentially fatal overdoses, but don't know what to do in the event of an emergency, according to a new study.

Latest stem cell discovery in the eye can help doctors cure blindness. The newly-discovered stem cells are also present in the eyes of elderly people.

Researchers suggest that the timing of gluten introduction in infants does not reduce the risk of developing celiac disease. Eating a gluten-free diet is believed to be the best treatment for celiac disease.

Researchers develop a microneedle pill as an alternative to deliver drugs that require injection. Patients will not feel any pain after swallowing the needle-coated pill.

Most clinical trials involve hundreds or thousands of patients. But sometimes the right number is one.

It's a question that still stumps evolutionary biologists.

A 20-something's trek through Europe followed by a bad sore throat and inflammation add up to a rare twist on a common infectious disease.

The human Y chromosome may vanish one day, but perhaps that wouldn't be so bad.

The government released the first batch of data that reveal the payments made by drug makers and medical device companies to doctors and hospitals totalling nearly $3.5 billion for a five month period in 2013.

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