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(Brown University) A survey of more than 480 female freshmen students conducted in 2010 at a university in upstate New York found that 18.6 percent said they experienced at least one attempted or completed rape in the ye...

(University of Georgia) Researchers have developed a way to predict which species of rodents are likeliest to be sources of new disease outbreaks in humans. The findings could help public health officials take a more pre...

(University of Connecticut) A common mutation in a gene that regulates cholesterol levels may raise the risk of heart disease in carriers up to 49 percent, particularly among men and African Americans, according to a new...

(Weizmann Institute of Science) The findings enabled Weizmann Institute researchers to grow, for the first time, lymphatic cells in the lab.

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have developed a second-generation antibiotic that shows early effectiveness against common bacterial infections...

The mythical "Fountain of Youth" isn't in some far-off land; it's flowing beat-by-beat inside every single young person. Young blood, it turns out, contains special healing properties that seem to fade away as we get old...

(MediaSource) In a large study of smokers, men were more likely than women to have osteoporosis and fractures of their vertebrae. Smoking history and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were independent risk fac...

(University of Sydney) A national survey reveals that only one in ten Australians report being told about the risk of overdiagnosis by their doctors, according to research published today in the scientific journal PLOS O...

(Central Ornithology Publication Office) It takes a lot of nutrients to build an egg. One of the big questions among researchers who study the eggs of migratory birds is where those nutrients come from -- does the mother...

MERS is in South Korea! Health officials have confirmed a man has been infected by the virus after traveling to the Middle East in April.

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found that drinking chamomile tea was associated with a decreased risk of death from all causes ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Cancer patients suffering from moderate to severe fatigue reported significantly less fatigue within 2-3 weeks of treatment with the traditional Chinese medicine herbal m...

(Yale University) Yale researchers found a close association between acute hospitalizations and the development and progression of disability among older adults at the end of life. Their findings may have profound implic...

(University of Edinburgh) Oral-care products containing a natural chemical that stops bacteria harming teeth could help prevent decay, a study suggests.

(Indiana University) Researchers with the Indiana University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that promotes metastasis of advanced prostate cancer to the bone, an incurable condition that significantly decre...

(University of Alberta) Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research collecting saliva samples to create world's largest DNA repository of people who stutter.

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Available research does not support the contention that athletes are uniquely at risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or other neurodegenerative disorders, according to a review in the June is...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) The US Food and Drug Administration has granted amended Breakthrough Therapy Designation for a promising drug combination to treat the sickest hepatitis C patien...

(Scripps Health) The nation's first and only proton therapy center to treat patients exclusively with pencil-beam scanning is reporting exceptional results in delivering cancer treatment since opening for patient care ju...

(EuroPCR) Clearing blood clots from arteries during treatment for an acute myocardial infarction was a relatively common practice until a recent, large-scale study showed that the technique, known as thrombectomy, might ...

(American Chemical Society) The number of new Ebola cases is tapering off, but the search for new treatments continues. Now, one research team has found potential drug candidates that successfully treated up to 90 percen...