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Research into where and how memories are stored in the the brain suggests memories lost to diseases like Alzheimer's might be recovered. It comes down to neurons and synapses, study finds.

Medical advancements happen all the time so why not male birth control, right? If things go according to plan, Vasalgel will not only revolutionize men's health but women's as well.

A woman who had been using drugs since she was 12 years old hid a glass pipe and bottle of cocaine inside her body. She became sick after the paraphernalia were removed and eventually died.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Performed as part of body contouring procedures in patients with massive weight loss, a procedure called medial thigh lift carries a substantial risk of complications, reports a study in the Janua...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Already known to cut proteins, the enzyme SPPL3 turns out to have additional talents, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins. In its newly discovered role, SPPL3 works without cutting protei...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Estradiol, a type of estrogen, enhances the levels and activity in mice of an enzyme that drives life-threatening allergic reactions, according to NIAID researc...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Face transplantation can dramatically enhance a patient's quality of life after severe facial trauma, but lack of attention to eyelid function and vis...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Difficulty paying for food and medications appears to be associated with poor diabetes control among patients in a study that examined the impact of economic insecurity on managing the disease...

(Yale University) Mice that are already infected with the pathogen that causes Lyme disease appear to facilitate the spread of a lesser-known but emerging disease, babesiosis, into new areas.

(Indiana University) Patient self-reporting version of the Healthy Aging Brain Care Monitor -- a primary-care tool to measure cognitive, functional and psychological symptoms -- is user-friendly, reliable and valid, incl...

(American Chemical Society) When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, the champagne gets popped all around the world. So what is it exactly that sends that cork flying? And what's the best way to pour your bubbl...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Recovery of blinking function is a critical but easily overlooked outcome after facial transplantation, according to a report in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the offi...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Three years after a small number of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were treated with high-dose immunosuppressive therapy and then transplanted with their own hematopoietic stem cells, m...

(MediaSource) Early use of available heart failure drugs slows the progressive decline in heart function before symptoms are apparent in boys and young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Dr. Subha Raman, a cardi...

(University of California - San Diego) While people who eat a lot of red meat are known to be at higher risk for certain cancers, other carnivores are not, prompting researchers at the University of California, San Diego...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and Washington State University researchers documented a never-before-seen mechanism by which a bacteria...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Researchers studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus...

(Harvard University) A Harvard study has found that, under certain circumstances, those who engage in violent conflict had more wives, and thus more opportunities to increase their reproductive success through having mor...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) An international research team has shown how changes in a flu virus that has plagued Chinese poultry farms for decades helped create the novel avian H7N9 influenza A virus that has...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Investigators working to unravel the impact of genetics versus environment on traits such as obesity may also need to consider a new factor: when individuals were born. A multi-institutio...

(SAGE Publications) The review demonstrates the potential for yoga to have an impact on concrete, physiological outcomes that represent some of the greatest health burdens today.

(Virginia Commonwealth University) A protein called GRP78 could be a universal therapeutic target for treating human diseases like brain cancer, Ebola, Influenza, Hepatitis and superbug bacteria such as Methicillin-resis...