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Arachnophobia was cured in a man who suffered from seizures. What could this mean for others who suffer from debilitating phobias?

Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox is free to travel as she pleases, after a judge in Maine struck down an order keeping her at home after treating patients in Sierra Leone.

Milk can increase mortality rates and the incidence of bone fractures in women, a new study reports.

Researchers say it's a protein, not plaque, that's behind Alzheimer's disease and dementia. A cancer drug made to treat leukemia may hold key to combating both, they say.

Scratching worsens an itch. This has something to do with the release of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is known to play a role in controlling pain.

You'll get an extra hour to play with, but you might not like it, experts say. Time change can effect our body clocks and our moods, they say.

Research involving over 100,000 individuals found that milk cannot prevent bone fractures. Drinking more milk is even tied with increased risks for early death.

(PATH) PATH, an international nonprofit organization, announces the availability of a point-of care diagnostic tool for Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness. It is the first in a suite of diagnostic innovati...

(Rockefeller University) A new system, developed by researchers at Rockefeller University and their collaborators, promises to make nanobodies -- antibodies' tiny cousins -- dramatically more accessible for all kinds of ...

(Harvard Medical School) Using mathematical toolkits traditionally considered the property of statistical physics and artificial intelligence, researchers have developed a way to identify important cancer mutations. This...

(Cancer Research UK) The cancer drug eribulin, originally developed from sea sponges, could give women with advanced triple negative breast cancer an average of five extra months of life, according to research presented ...

(Washington University in St. Louis) Lihong Wang, Ph.D., the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering & Applied Science is applying a novel time-reversal technology tha...

(University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center) An antibody abundant in mice and previously thought to offer poor assistance in fighting against infection may actually play a key role in keeping immune responses in che...