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One science lesson in school led to an emergency room visit for a student with a life-threatening aneurysm. The student felt a lump while searching his neck for a pulse as his class learned about the human circulatory sy...

Authorities in India are investigating possible drug contamination in the deaths of women treated at a "sterilization camp." Antibiotics administered after tubal ligation may have contained rat poison, officials say.

Researchers say they can predict the outbreak of an infectious disease by watching people search Wikipedia for information and symptoms. The technique could yield a global disease-forecasting system, they suggest.

Disease outbreaks and epidemics may be predicted by studying visits to Wikipedia pages, but how reliable is the technique?

A majority of Americans is ineligible for kidney donation because of preventable health conditions such as obesity and diabetes. Aside from health, the socio-economic status of the population also plays a pivotal role in...

A preliminary study suggests that chemicals in sunscreens may cause infertility in men. Women, however, face a lower risk.

Regular walnut consumption may reduce the risk of prostate cancer, increase insulin sensitivity, and reduce cholesterol levels. Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer in men.

(BioMed Central) As many as 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss, according to research published in the open access journal Microbiome. The study also found that partners who kiss each other at le...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Vivek Y. Reddy, M.D., of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and colleagues examined the long-term efficacy and safety, compared to warfarin, of a device to achieve left atr...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Members of the public in counties with higher median household incomes are more likely to step into action to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, when they witne...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Matthew D. Ritchey, D.P.T., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues examined the contributions of heart disease subtypes to overall heart disease mortality t...

(Hoffman & Hoffman Worldwide) For the first time in history, the complications of preterm birth outrank all other causes as the world's number one killer of young children. Of the estimated 6.3 million deaths of children...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Lars H. Lund, M.D., Ph.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and colleagues conducted a study to examine whether beta-blockers are associated with reduced mortality in heart fai...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Duk-Woo Park, M.D., of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, and Manesh R. Patel, M.D., of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, N.C., and colleagues investigated ...

(Mayo Clinic) Patients with active asthma -- such as any use of asthma medications, and unscheduled office or emergency visits for asthma -- are at a twofold risk of having a heart attack, according to Mayo Clinic resear...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) A new study by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers confirms their surprising earlier finding: Patients who suffer a STEMI heart attack while while in the...

(Duke University Medical Center) A blocked artery causes a deadly kind of heart attack known as STEMI, and a rapid response to clear the blockage saves lives. But in more than half of cases studied recently by Duke Medic...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Stefanie Schulz-Schupke, M.D., of the Deutsches Herzzentrum Munchen, Technische Universitat, Munich, Germany and colleagues assessed whether vascular closure devices are noninferior (not worse...

(Karolinska Institutet) A novel registry study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden suggests that beta blockers may benefit also patients suffering from a relatively unknown form of heart failure called HFPEF, which toda...