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(National Academy of Sciences) The Institute of Medicine has selected four outstanding health professionals for the class of 2014 Institute of Medicine Anniversary Fellows.

(European Society of Cardiology) Patients with sinus bradycardia during therapeutic hypothermia had a 50 to 60 percent lower mortality rate at 180 days than those with no sinus bradycardia. Study also found that sinus br...

(Entertainment Industry Foundation) Van Andel Research Institute is providing $7.5 million to continue the work of the inaugural Stand Up To Cancer Epigentics Dream Team. The VARI-SU2C Epigenetics Dream Team will focus o...

Soda may significantly age people as much as cigarette smoking, by contributing to cell death, a new study reveals.

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Innovative new drugs to treat cancer frequently make the headlines, either due to great success or controversy, as pharmaceutical companies get lambasted for sel...

Approximately one-fourth of the 3,386 patients whose DNA was submitted for clinical whole exome testing received a diagnosis related to a known genetic disease, often ending a long search for answers for them and their p...

Sugar-sweetened soda consumption might promote disease independently from its role in obesity, according to UC San Francisco researchers who found in a new study that drinking sugary drinks was associated with cell aging...

Drinking beer can boost fertility in men. However, consumption of coffee by men may have an adverse effect on the possibility of fathering a child.

Depression and aging may be linked with a single gene, researchers reveal. Further research is needed to determine the findings of the study.

The presence of a passenger who may have handled specimen from Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan generated anxiety and fear in the cruise ship Carnival Magic. Tests, however, confirmed that the passenger and her husband w...

(University of California - San Francisco) An international research collaboration led by UC San Francisco researchers has identified a genetic variant common in Latina women that protects against breast cancer.

(Ketchum New York) New data presented today at the 2014 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo indicate that consumers of frozen meals had higher daily intakes of dietary fiber, potassium, ...

(University of the Basque Country ) At the Faculty of Pharmacy of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country encapsulation techniques are being developed to deliver correctly and effectively certain drugs.

(Arizona State University) In a new study, Hansa Done, Ph.D. candidate, and Rolf Halden, Ph.D., researchers at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, examine antibiotic use in the rapidly expanding world of glob...

(St. Michael's Hospital) Controlling the Ebola virus outbreak at the source in West Africa is the most effective way to decrease international risk of transmission, according to a research paper to be published in The La...

(University of Minnesota) Blind cave fish may not be the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to understanding human sight, but recent research indicates they may have quite a bit to teach us about the causes of ...

(University of Texas at Austin) A new study, which may have implications for approaches to education, finds that brain mechanisms engaged when people allow their minds to rest and reflect on things they've learned before...

(University at Buffalo) One of the few studies to examine gender differences among patients with irritable bowel syndrome has found that males with the condition experience more interpersonal difficulties than do females...

(Salk Institute) Like a colony of bacteria or species of animals, cancer cells within a tumor must evolve to survive. A dose of chemotherapy may kill hundreds of thousands of cancer cells, for example, but a single cell ...

(Wiley) Ankylosing spondylitis is a systemic disease that causes inflammation in the spinal joints and was thought to have affected members of the ancient Egyptian royal families. Now a new study published in Arthritis &...

(Arizona State University) In a new study, Rolf Halden, PhD, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, examines the trajectory of chemicals appearing as emergent threats to human or environmental he...

(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) Obesity affects individual patient care, the healthcare system and nearly every organ in the body. People with obesity often have other health problems, including diabetes, hear...