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(Mayo Clinic) Increasingly high prices for cancer drugs are affecting patient care in the US and the American health care system overall, say the authors of a special article published online in the journal Mayo Clinic P...

Loneliness and social isolation are risk factors contributing to early mortality for all age groups, a study finds. Researchers suggest we face a 'loneliness epidemic.'

Measles outbreak in the U.S. got a foothold because vaccination rates among the exposed population are low, researchers say. Rate may be as low as 50 percent in some outbreak case clusters, they say.

Coca-Cola and other companies are paying nutritionists to recommend their products as part of healthy snacking, new reports suggest.

Researchers reveal how cells protect themselves from a protein that is a key driver of cancer. The study appears in The Journal of Cell Biology.

At least 10 Americans are being flown back from Sierra Leone to the U.S. over potential Ebola exposure. These people have not tested positive for the Ebola virus but will be monitored over a 21-day incubation period.

Researchers have discovered that e-cigarette ads might as well be promoting tobacco cigarettes as watching them fuels urges in smokers, including those who have quit.

Energy drinks may raise resting blood pressure and effect heart rate in young people. Energy drink consumption is on the rise despite the risks associated with them.

Boston Scientific's Watchman Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Device intends to prevent stroke. It is a non-drug substitute for Warfarin.

Folic acid in combination with high blood pressure medicine can reduce the risk of stroke. The study was conducted in China and involved over 20,000 participants.

(Wiley) Some children and adults are allergic to nickel and develop rashes when they come in contact with it. They also may react to foods -- including peanuts, chocolate, oats, and processed American cheese -- that cont...

(Wiley) Research suggests that the ratio of the lengths of the index finger and the ring finger in males may be predictive of a variety of disorders related to disturbed hormonal balance. When the index finger is shorter...

(Duke University) The warm soft folds of the intestines are teeming with thousands of species of bacteria that help break down food, synthesize vitamins, regulate weight and resist infection. If they're so key to health,...

(Rice University) Rice University bioengineers are teaming with colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center to apply the latest techniques in tissue engineering toward the study of one of the...

(Wiley) New treatments for hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be highly effective but are associated with substantial costs that may compel clinicians and patients to consider delaying treatment. However, a new study shows that...

(American College of Cardiology) Patients with atrial fibrillation who received ablation while they were already undergoing surgery to correct a leaky heart valve had fewer episodes of atrial fibrillation a year later co...

(Columbia University Medical Center) Researchers have pinpointed the immune system mechanism that allows a kidney transplant to be accepted without lifelong immunosuppressive drugs.

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Jim Allison, Ph.D., chair of Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, received the 2015 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize Saturday in re...

(Digestive Disease Week) DDW, May 16-19 in Washington, D.C., is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal s...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Special redesigned labels for intravenous medication bags may help to prevent serious medication errors in the operating room, reports a study in the March issue of the Journal of Patient Safety. ...

(American College of Physicians) More than 6,000 internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, medical students, and allied health professionals from around the world will gather for the American College of Physicians' I...

(American College of Cardiology) Obese patients with atrial fibrillation who lost at least 10 percent of their body weight were six times more likely to achieve long-term freedom from this common heart rhythm disorder co...