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New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

Second surgeries for breast cancer are less common among women who have additional tissue removed during partial mastectomies. What does this mean for women facing the disease?

A man who developed a fever after traveling to Sierra Leone is being monitored for possible Ebola infection at the University of Kansas Hospital.

Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise around Rhode Island and elsewhere. Are Tinder and other social media apps driving the rise of STDs?

Researchers have discovered that around ten percent of New Yorkers with tattoos experience a severe allergic reaction after getting inked. Experts believe this is caused by chemical compounds in tattoo inks.

Mariana Villarreal, a waitress at Hooters, donated one of her kidneys to longtime patron Don Thomas, who lost both his kidneys to cancer.

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) An article on the 'Current place of nitrous oxide in clinical practice' published in the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, concludes that there is 'no clinically relevant ev...

(University of Queensland) University of Queensland researchers have identified two types of stem cells in the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for learning and memory.

(ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)) Research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia exploring the protective effect of various heart medications that patients are taking before undergoing coronary artery bypass...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a head-to-head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people with squamous-non-small cell lung cancer who received nivolum...

(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Treating advanced melanoma patients with either a combination of the immunotherapy drugs nivolumab and ipilimumab or nivolumab alone significantly increases progression-free survi...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Using high-precision genetic tests to differentiate the thousands of bacteria that make up the human microbiome, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Ce...

Everyone knows green tea is healthy, but it might be far better for men's health than previously thought. A recent study shows that subcomponents of the beverage can help prevent the development of prostate cancer.