Medical News

Scientists at MIT have developed an Ebola test that only takes 10 minutes. In the field it could help detect the highly contagious disease quickly so that doctors can contain an outbreak faster.

Many women under age 55 are ignoring their risk factors for heart disease, often ignore early symptoms, study finds. Under age 55 twice as many women as men die of heart disease, researchers say.

Study suggests people living in colder U.S. states generally put in a little more sack time each night. Sleep-tracking app used to find out how many hours people slept each night on average.

Platinum-based treatment could have dramatic response in some patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Two patients who received this therapy had their tumor completely gone.

Staff at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating the link between medical offices and the spread of the C. diff bacteria. About 500,000 people in America are infected with the bug each year.

A food additive commonly found in ice cream, margarine and other processed foods affect the bacterial makeup of the gut increasing a person's odds of developing inflammatory and metabolic diseases.

Bird flu is back in Myanmar, prompting officials to turn to culling chickens to prevent the H5N1 virus from spreading in the poultry industry. Controlling the outbreak in the industry also helps in protecting people.

Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived Ebola, reveals that media and politicians over-sensationalized the incident. Dr. Spencer believes that his Ebola infection was hyped and did not sound supporting.

When it comes to staying clean, bumping is better than shaking.

Bioelectronic devices surgically implanted on nerves interfere with and change the body’s own processes to make them function better.

Amidst our national sleep crisis, researchers are urgently trying to understand why we sleep and what goes wrong when we don't.

A healthy, stable woman with asthma suddenly finds herself considering suicide despite landing a dream job in a city she loves. What went wrong?

Cell-sized particles could help with blood clotting in the face of donor shortages.

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