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Fingerprints may not be the permanent biological signatures we've built them up to be. Since the 1920s, fingerprints have been accepted as evidence in courtrooms due to their uniqueness and permanence. And their uniquene...

Experts discovered that people with higher systolic blood pressure may be at a decreased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. The researchers originally wanted to establish a causal relationship between modifiable cli...

A new study suggests that a class of antidepressant, which is also used to treat menopausal symptoms, may increase the risk of bone fracture in women. Experts say that bone fracture may build up over time hence; shorted ...

With the summer season now in full swing, families are looking forward to spend some time outdoors and have fun under the sun. This is also the best time to find out how to protect children from the harmful effects of UV...

A study showed results of cognitive test scores and found that Alzheimer's disease can start to exist even as early as decades before a patient is diagnosed with it.

Novartis' new injectable psoriasis drug Cosentyx was shown to act rapidly on psoriatic arthritis. Its efficacy was also sustained over a period of one year.

(American Thoracic Society) An overview and analysis of the factors underlying the recent Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus outbreak in Korea has been published online ahead of print in the American Thoracic S...

(International Osteoporosis Foundation) Leading experts in the field present the latest research on material properties of bone and how these can impart resilience or fragility to the skeleton. This new knowledge will ai...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) As the South Korean MERS epidemic continues, researchers have discovered and validated two therapeutics that show early promise in preventing and treating the disease, which ca...

(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) Cyrus Ghajar, Ph.D., a metastatic breast cancer researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has received a $4.1 million Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Prog...

(University of Warwick) The usage of key medicines in developing countries could be significantly increased through improved packaging appearance, a new study by the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. and the Univers...

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) Today, the International and American Associations for Dental Research published a case report on the first application of a 3-D printed scaffold for periodonta...

(Mayo Clinic) Clinicians testing the drug dasatinib, approved for several blood cancers, had hoped it would slow the aggressive growth of the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma; however, clinical trials to date have not fo...

(National Academy of Sciences) Tremendous variability in wait times for health care appointments exists throughout the US, ranging from same day service to several months, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) The amphetamine-based drug Evekeo, given once or twice daily to children 6-12 years of age, is effective in treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) sympt...

(University of Oklahoma) An OU professor studying malaria mosquito interaction has discovered a new mosquito protein for the development of a vaccine that is expected to stop the spread of the disease in areas where it i...

(National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) The National Weather Service this summer is introducing new online forecasts based on research by a team of risk communication ex...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Canada's first human gene therapy trial for eyes -- the replacement of a faulty gene with a healthy one -- is now underway at Edmonton's Royal Alexandra Hospital to...

(Dartmouth College) A Dartmouth-led study using a 600-year-old ice core shows that global mercury pollution increased dramatically during the 20th century, but that mercury concentrations in the atmosphere decreased fast...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) About 20 percent of follicular lymphoma patients consistently experience their disease coming back within two years of being treated with the latest therapies. New research confir...

(Saint Louis University) Daniel Hoft, M.D., Ph.D., director of the division of infectious diseases at Saint Louis University has received funding from the Gates Foundation to research a potential vaccine against tubercul...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new approach to build nearly complete genomes by combining high-throughput DNA sequ...