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Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, but has the Plasmodium falciparum parasite met its match?

In recent years, a number of scientific breakthroughs have led to the development of drugs that unleash the power of the immune system to recognize and attack cancer. Studies presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the A...

In the treatment of multiple myeloma, the addition of carfilzomib to a currently accepted two-drug combination produced significantly better results than using the two drugs alone, according to a worldwide research team ...

All medications have their pros and cons. To take advantage of them, a balance between benefits and risks must be achieved. A study takes on aspirin to determine where it stands for heart health.

High cholesterol levels can increase odds for heart disease, stroke and early death but a new drug has shown promise in reducing the risks. In clinical trial, the Alirocumab drug was shown to reduce bad cholesterol to le...

The cancer genome browser will allow doctors to access their cancer patients' genetic data via a BlackBerry smartphone and will be available early next year.

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) Radiation therapy for head and neck cancer is highly complex, and a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology with an accompanying editorial suggests that medic...

(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) A new screening tool in mice can identify causes of cancer invisible to genetic sequencing. The technique, which works by introducing sections of DNA called piggyBac transposons into the...

(Queen's University) Sexual behavior of teenage girls does not appear to be impacted by the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, according to Queen's researchers Drs. Leah Smith and Linda Lévesque.

(Indiana University) A new treatment for adult-onset diabetes and obesity developed by researchers at Indiana University and the German Research Center for Environmental Health has essentially cured lab animals of obesit...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Older Latinos living in the US who perceive their neighborhoods as safer and more walkable are less likely to develop severe depressive symptoms, and the effect may be long te...

(Medical College of Wisconsin) Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin have discovered a link between sleep loss and cell injury. Results of a new study find sleep deprivation causes the damage to cells, especiall...

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) The brain has an enormous capacity to store memories and to keep memories from getting mixed up in part because of how these memories are stored in the hippocampus, resear...

(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Nine groups of scientists will receive funding totaling $5.9 million in 2014 to work together on increasing the understanding of sudden unexpected death in ep...

(University of Zurich) A protein that influences the epigenetic characteristics of tumor cells is directly linked to the grade of malignancy of prostate cancer. This key discovery has been made by a team of scientists fr...

(Duke University Medical Center) Women over the age of 70 who have certain early-stage breast cancers overwhelmingly receive radiation therapy despite published evidence that the treatment has limited benefit, researcher...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A study that investigated the potential of the compound PRM-151 for reducing progressive bone marrow fibrosis in patients with advanced myelofibrosis has shown initial p...

(Cancer Research UK) Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a new line of defense used by cancer cells to evade cell death, according to research published in Nature Communications.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A genetic misfire called the 3q26.2 amplicon can cause real havoc. In fact, it is among the most frequent chromosomal aberrations seen in many cancers, including ovarian...

(Lifespan) Some infections after prostate biopsy due to drug-resistant Escherichia coli can be thwarted by simple rectal swab cultures prior to the procedure. The cultures test for antibiotic-resistant E. coli, and the f...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Triple-negative breast cancer is as bad as it sounds. The cells that form these tumors lack three proteins that would make the cancer respond to powerful, customized treatments. Instead, doctors ...

(McGill University) The opioid pain-reliever tramadol appears to be associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia, a potentially fatal condition caused by low blood sugar, according to a report pu...