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Sexual reproduction appears to be highly inefficient by producing males. So why do men exist at all?

Biomedical devices that can be implanted in the body for drug delivery, tissue engineering, or sensing can help improve treatment for many diseases. However, such devices are often susceptible to attack by the immune sys...

Clusters of tumor cells can be found in the blood of many cancer patients. A new device called a Cluster-Chip could allow researchers to filter these clusters from the blood and use them to guide treatments.

Treatment with two medications that target the most common genetic cause of cystic fibrosis improves lung function and lowers the rate of pulmonary exacerbations, according to the results from a Phase III international c...

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego developed a gel filled with toxin-absorbing nanosponges that could lead to an effective treatment for skin and wound infections caused by MRSA (methicillin-resista...

California's a step closer towards getting a law banning personal and religious belief exemptions for vaccinations as the state's senate passes bill SB 277.

A new study conducted by the Northwestern University suggests that a combination of the drugs ivacaftor and lumacaftor has the ability to improve the health of patients diagnosed with a rare form of the lung disease cyst...

Does your child have asthma? There's a good chance that he might be allergic to peanuts as well.

Authorities are having difficulty cracking down on edible marijuana items, which often take the form of innocent-looking snacks. Edible marijuana items are often created in states where marijuana is legal, then transport...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) An important link between the human body clock and the immune system has relevance for better understanding inflammatory and infectious diseases. Researchers report how a c...

(Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies) Machine learning can pinpoint rodent species that harbor diseases and geographic hotspots vulnerable to new parasites and pathogens. So reports a new study in the Proceedings of the ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) New study results show that a simple blood test to measure brain-specific proteins released after a person suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can reliably predict bot...

(Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America) New research finds that misdiagnoses lead to increased risk of incorrect antibiotic use, threatening patient outcomes and antimicrobial efficacy, while increasing healthca...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Changing the size of cell-carrying spheres may surmount the difficulties that have bedeviled diabetes researchers trying to ferry insulin-producing islet cells into hosts as a way to t...

(Temple University Health System) Today's academic medical centers need to embrace the changing healthcare marketplace or run the risk of becoming the next Kodak -- a former industrial giant that became obsolete when it ...

(RAND Corporation) Studying adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the link between sleep and alcohol/marijuana use was consistent even after controlling for other known risk factors, such as depressi...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) NCI recently announced that it had removed all PSA data from the SEER and SEER-Medicare programs. The data were removed after quality control checks revealed that a substantial number of PSA va...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A recent clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-authored by the Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Cente...

(Boston University Medical Center) Social media messaging, screening and interventions offer new tools to help colleges prevent and reduce excessive drinking, according to a report authored by a Boston University School ...

(Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) Cancer research leaders at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Oregon Health & Science University, Sage Bionetworks, the distributed DREAM community and The University of Ca...

(Duke University) A team led by scientists at Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has discovered an area of the brain that is sensitive to the timing of speech. The new study advances our unders...