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New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

A Thanksgiving dinner can pack in as many as 4,500 calories. If you polish off everything on the table, be ready to log in some serious physical activity to burn all those calories.

Healthy Heart Score, a cardiovascular health calculator developed by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, allows people to identify their risks for heart disease in the next 20 years.

Bacteria in our bodies may have a role in protecting our brain against harmful pathogens, new research finds. They are critical to creating and maintaining the blood-brain barrier, the brain's first line of defense.

Teens on prescriptions for sleep or anti-anxiety drugs are more likely to abuse them once their prescriptions run out, a study finds. Abusers often turn to family or friends for pills, researchers say.

Suppressing HIV through antiretroviral therapy could help patients live longer and healthier as well as reduce their risk of infecting others. Unfortunately, 70 percent of the 1.2 million HIV patients in the U.S. in 2011...

A study reveals that most American senior citizens will qualify for statin therapy. Statins are a group of drugs that lower the levels of cholesterol within the body by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase.

After more than two years without medication, the child's infection has returned.

What can we learn from the scandals that plagued scientific research in 2014?

Scientists and health workers scramble to contain the world's worst Ebola outbreak.

A mental disease currently diagnosed just by its symptoms may soon yield genetic markers.

An internal investigation reveals a systemic pattern of safety lapses.

A high-tech bionic pancreas provides better control of diabetics' blood sugar.

MIT team cuts out a faulty liver gene and replaces it with a healthy copy.

Bioengineers take the first step toward printing replacement tissue.

Severe deficiencies increase the odds of developing dementia.

The CDC has confirmed more than 1,500 cases of the tropical disease in the U.S.

Clinicians may soon have a new tool to combat the virus.

Study that followed women for 25 years shows that screening does not translate into lives saved.

Discovering where HIV lingers in the body could lead to a cure.

Gene therapy could eliminate need for electronic pacemakers.