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Replenishing the supply of a molecule that normally activates cannabinoid receptors in the brain could relieve mood and anxiety disorders and enable some people to quit using marijuana, a Vanderbilt University study sugg...

The holidays are packed with opportunities to raise a glass of our favorite boozy beverages and toast family, friends and good fortunes. But our ability to digest rum-spiked eggnog may be due to a massive climate shift t...

Genetic screening for cancer, based solely on family history, may not be enough for people in high-risk populations, such as Ashkenazi Jews, a new report states.

Razor scooters and other foot-powered scooters are the highest toy-related cause of injury in children, a new study shows. If you get your child a scooter for Christmas this year, use safety precautions like a helmet, th...

The experimental Ebola vaccine dubbed cAd3-EBO triggered positive immune response in its first clinical trial involving 20 adults. Two of the volunteers had fever after vaccination, but no serious side effects were repor...

Lay them down surrounded by warmth and softness? Not a good idea when putting babies to sleep, according to a study, as it increases risks of suffocation and death.

The demand for plastic surgery procedures has significantly increased and the trend has something to do with selfies and people not satisfied of how they look on social media sites.

The FDA may possibly lift a decade-long policy that prohibits gay men from donating blood. The ban, which was enacted to prevent HIV transmission and other blood borne disease, had been dubbed discriminatory and scientif...

Dealing with type 1 diabetes is difficult, but researchers may have found a better way with dual-hormone artificial pancreas. A clinical trial has yielded some promising results.

(Wiley) Among survivors of the 2011 Utøya Island terrorist attack in Norway, most perceived contact with media as a positive experience. Among those who allowed themselves to be interviewed by the media, 13 percent foun...

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) Programs that control the production of neurons during brain development determine how the brain folds.

(Kessler Foundation) Kessler Foundation researchers have authored a new article that provides insight into the variable impact of traumatic brain injury on long-term memory. The article, 'Working memory capacity links co...

(ETH Zurich) Traumatic and stressful events during childhood increase the risk to develop psychiatric disorders, but to a certain extent, they can also help better deal with difficult situations later in life. Researcher...

(Wiley) Through research in mice, scientists have found that proteins at the blood-brain barrier pump out riluzole, the only FDA-approved drug for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, limiting the drug's effectiveness. However,...

(Nationwide Children's Hospital) In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital have found that an estimated 3,278,073 children were treated in Un...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) French neurosurgeon Alim Louis Benabid and American neurologist Mahlon DeLong were recently named winners of the 2014 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for their roles in developing d...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Kidneys donated by people born with a small variation in the code of a key gene may be more likely, once in the transplant recipient, to accumulate scar tissue ...

(NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Nearly 55 percent of US infants are placed to sleep with bedding that increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, despite recommendations ag...

(Monash University) Monash University and 60P Australia Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of 60° Pharmaceuticals LLC, have announced today an exclusive partnering deal, with 60P obtaining rights to develop the drug Fenretinide for ...

(University of Kentucky) A group of physiologists led by University of Kentucky's Tim McClintock, Ph.D., have identified the receptors activated by two odors using a new method that tracks responses to smells in live mic...

(Kansas State University) A patent has been issued for a series of synthetic compounds developed at Kansas State University that have applications for treating cancer and other diseases that affect cell communication.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) 'Triple-negative' breast cancer occurs in patients whose cells do not express receptors for estrogen, progesterone, and/or human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (ER/PR/HER2). Because of the ...