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Ebola has infected nearly 20,000 people this year, and researchers believe they have traced the origin of this epidemic to a single tree, and the bats who live there.

New findings on autism point to communications problems within the brain as one cause of the disorder. Researchers study links between proteins and genes involved in autism.

Influenza is now an epidemic, according to the CDC, appearing in more than two-thirds of states. How can you be protected?

Researchers suggest that memories are not stored at the synapses. It is possible to recover lost or forgotten memories in people experiencing the early stage of Alzheimer's disease.

Ebola still doesn't look like it has run its course. A volunteer nurse, who contracted the virus while aiding patients in West Africa, has been transferred to London for treatment.

Non-opioid analgesic injectable Dyloject has received FDA approval, adding to the list of NSAID options available to patients for safe, effective and non-addicting pain relief.

Some patients with a brain tumor do not exhibit neurological symptoms such as speech dysfunction and seizures. Isolated headaches may be the only sign of their health problem.

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(American Academy of Neurology) Exercise may help people with Parkinson's disease improve their balance, ability to move around and quality of life, even if it does not reduce their risk of falling, according to a new st...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A clinical trial that combined stereotactic body radiation therapy with a specific chemotherapy regimen more than doubled survival rates for certain stage 4 lung cancer patients.

(University of California - Berkeley) Frogs exhibit an amazing variety of reproductive behaviors, ranging from brooding their eggs in their mouths to carrying tadpoles on their backs. Fewer than a dozen species of 6,000+...

(Cell Press) Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease. In patie...

(American Cancer Society) The American Cancer Society's annual cancer statistics report finds that a 22 percent drop in cancer mortality over two decades led to the avoidance of more than 1.5 million cancer deaths that w...

(Mayo Clinic) Women with atypical hyperplasia of the breast have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than previously thought, a Mayo Clinic study has found. Results of the study appear in a special report on breast...

(Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus) Two new reports from researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University shows fast food portion sizes and product formulation, including sodium...