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(Northwestern University) Genetic testing of Iñupiat people currently living in Alaska's North Slope is helping Northwestern University scientists fill in the blanks on questions about the migration patterns and ancestr...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is now recommending that children with head lice should not be kept out of school. Is this brilliant idea the product of nitwits?

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is caused by immune cells that activate a cascade of chemicals in the brain, attacking and degrading the insulation that keeps neuronal signals moving. These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the...

California's Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Senate Bill 227, a bill making vaccination mandatory for all schoolchildren in the state, despite opposition from parents groups claiming that it violates their parent...

Among its many benefits, breastfeeding could reduce both the risk of breast cancer recurrence and death by breast cancer.

Babies are now more exposed to gadgets with more than a third of them using tablets and smartphones earlier than before they can walk and talk. Experts warned of the possible consequences of this habit.

A new study recommended that we should focus on higher potassium intake than low-salt diet in improving our blood pressure. One example of high potassium food is guacamole which has 900 milligrams of potassium per servin...

Getting hepatitis C is already a major concern by itself, but researchers have found that acquiring the infection also increases risk for various types of cancer.

With latest trials showing safety and efficacy in a candidate vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline is eager to take the next step toward preventing shingles across age groups.

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(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Gene therapy can clip out genetic material linked to heart failure and replace it with the normal gene in human cardiac cells, according to a study led by resea...