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Deaths due to heroin overdose have more than doubled between 2010 and 2012. Some addicts may have migrated from abusing prescription drugs to heroin because heroin is cheaper and more potent.

The first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the U.S. is in critical condition, reveals the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he is being treated. About 50 people he came into contact with are being monitore...

All's well that ends well. Or maybe not. One backpacker arrives home safe and sound but gets a surprise from a fellow backpacker: an African flea that burrowed in his foot to lay eggs.

A traditional family meal during adolescence may protect children from obesity during adulthood, a study suggests. Social interaction and eating healthful food are more likely developed during family meals, researchers s...

(Imperial College London) Scientists have taken pictures of the BRCA2 protein for the first time, showing how it works to repair damaged DNA.

(Boston Children's Hospital) The largest genome-wide association study to date, involving more than 300 institutions and more than 250,000 subjects, roughly doubles the number of known gene regions influencing height to ...

(Rockefeller University) Conventional antibiotics are indiscriminate about what they kill, a trait that can lead to complications for patients and can contribute to the growing problems of antibiotic resistance. But a a ...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that T-cells -- a type of white blood cell that learns to recognize and attack microbial pathog...

(Harvard University) A seven-year-project to develop a barcoding and tracking system for tissue stem cells has revealed previously unrecognized features of normal blood production: new data from Harvard Stem Cell Institu...

(University of Exeter) An international collaboration of scientists has identified a fifth of the genetic factors that cause height to vary between individuals.

(Rutgers University) New research led by Victor Shengkan Jin of Rutgers University shows promising evidence that a modified form the drug niclosamide -- now used to eliminate intestinal parasites -- may hold the key to b...

(University of Montreal) The disease, which has been named 'chronic atrial intestinal dysrhythmia syndrome', is a serious condition caused by a rare genetic mutation. This finding demonstrates that heart and guts rhythmi...

A woman in Sweden successfully gave birth to a live child following a womb transplant. The mother was born without a uterus but had functional ovaries.