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Officials trying to determine source of poison in homemade beer that killed scores at funeral in Mozambique. Suspicions about crocodile bile have not been proven, they say, but tests are being done.

Night shift work, with its disruption of circadian rhythm and sleep deprivation, linked to elevated diabetes risk in black women, study finds. And the risk goes up the longer night work continues through life, researcher...

Individuals with peanut allergy are advised to stay away from two varieties of MorningStar Farms bean burgers because they may contain peanuts not listed in the ingredients.

Nobel laureate Dr. John Robin Warren warns about excess use of antibiotics. He suggests that doctors should prescribe antibiotics only when needed.

Using a biomarker called nicotine metabolite ratio, researchers were able to determine the rate on which smokers metabolize the nicotine in their body and this could tell which smoking cessation treatment is more effecti...

Beer contamination in Mozambique results in the death of at least 52 people and hospitalization of many more. The contaminated beer probably contains crocodile bile.

(University of California - Berkeley) Stress is known to interfere with reproduction, but a new study by UC Berkeley scientists shows that the effects of chronic stress on fertility persist long after the stress is gone....

(Emory Health Sciences) Chemists have made a significant advancement to directly functionalize C-H bonds in natural products by selectively installing new carbon-carbon bonds into highly complex alkaloids and nitrogen-co...

(Yale University) A new study finds that children who received expanded Medicaid benefits in the 1980s and 1990s contributed more to the US tax system as adults. They also were more likely to attend college and less like...

(Brown University) Recent federal reports show that physicians are increasingly referring services such as diagnostic imaging to businesses in which they have a financial stake. The controversial practice depends on loop...

(European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) The EORTC, the US National Cancer Institute, and the European Medicines Agency have signed an agreement to produce a first of its kind meeting to collaborative...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) African Americans currently account for nearly half of all new HIV diagnoses, and among females, 64 percent of new HIV diagnoses affect Black/African American women. A se...

(University of Central Florida) Even decades after being cured, many cancer survivors face physical and mental challenges resulting from their disease and its treatment. From physical problems such as sexual dysfunction ...

(Georgia State University) Georgia State University's School of Public Health has received a five-year, $800,000 contract from the Georgia Department of Education to coordinate Youth Mental Health First Aid Training and ...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Thirty-eight of 40 volunteers with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections who received a combination of three direct-acting oral drugs for six weeks were cured in a...

(University of California - Davis) A hybrid mosquito, resulting from interbreeding of two malaria mosquitoes, now has the ability to survive the insecticides used to treat bed nets -- which have been key to preventing th...

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Researchers at the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University Medical Center and the World Health Organization have conducted a review to identify effective or promi...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Amgen have announced a research collaborative agreement focusing on Amgen's bispecific T cell engager (BiTE®) anti...

(Wiley) Even decades after being cured, many cancer survivors face physical and mental challenges resulting from their disease and its treatment.

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have discovered a mechanism that leads to resistance to targeted therapy in melanoma patients and are investigating strategies to coun...

(McGill University) McGill researchers have discovered that there are three genetically distinct groups of whipworms -- and that only one of the three appears to be transmissible between humans and non-human primates. It...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) Novella Clinical, a Quintiles company (Novella), and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) today announced a preferred provider collaboration that will offer a set of clinical ...