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The Legionnaires' outbreak in New York City has reportedly been contained and was found to originate from a group of five buildings in the South Bronx of New York.

A new technique developed by statisticians that is helping doctors optimize the dose of a new cancer treatment patients receive in phase I/ II clinical trials was presented today by Juhee Lee, assistant professor of appl...

AstraZeneca has agreed to pay Inovio $27.5 million up front and as much as $700 million once the latter's INO-3112 immunotherapy reaches certain developments and commercial milestones.

A girl from California, who camped at the Yosemite National Park in July, has been confirmed to suffer from the plague caused by rodents and fleas that live on them. Authorities are currently investigating the exact area...

The WHO reported a huge number of survivors from the Ebola outbreak that started late 2013. The patients are on the road to recovery but are facing some physical, mental and psychological issues.

Cooling towers in New York City are being cleaned and disinfected in an effort to prevent the further spread of the Legionella bacteria, the cause of Legionnaires' disease.

Obesity is not about the amounts of food and drinks one consume, it actually depends on exercise and physical activity, claims Coca-Cola. In fact, they have partnered with an organization composed of scientific experts, ...

Scientists at the Ohio State University have discovered that the brains of people diagnosed with epilepsy react differently to music compared to the brains of those without the medical condition.

A new study finds that misuse of dietary supplements is a growing problem among males. Psychologists need to account for overuse of legal appearance and performance-enhancing drugs (APEDs) when studying eating disorders,...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, in partnership with Wayne State University School of Medicine, is one of the lead academic centers participa...

(Boston University Medical Center) The term 'transgender' has made its way into mainstream media, but for many physicians, or physicians-in-training, who do not typically treat transgender patients, transgender medicine ...

(University of California - Los Angeles) Amid growing interest in the value of teaming mental health providers with family doctors, the first meta-analysis of research on so-called 'integrated care' finds that children a...

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) Today, IADR/AADR published two reports including a critical review titled 'Diet and Dental Caries -- the Pivotal Role of Free Sugars Reemphasized.' In this crit...

(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say they have developed a method that could make a nasal spray flu vaccine effective for those unde...

(Fundação de Amparo Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) A Brazilian company has signed a licensing agreement with an American laboratory, under which the US-based company's technology will be used to produce a monoclonal...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Venous thromboembolism, encompassing blood clots in leg veins or clots that travel to the lungs, is the most common cause of preventable death in hospital settings. While these clots can be pre...

(Future Science Group) Oncology Central, Future Science Group's key online resource for the oncology community, today announced that they will be supporting World Cancer Research Fund this month by donating £1 to the ch...

(The JAMA Network Journals) JAMA Internal Medicine will publish a package of articles, along with an author interview podcast, focused on end-of-life, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The original investigation...

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) People who live in areas of California with a higher density of marijuana dispensaries experience a greater number of hospitalizations involving marijuana abuse a...

(Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University) A receptor that is already a target for treating neurodegenerative disease also appears to play a key role in supporting the retina, scientists report.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have identified a molecular partnership in pancreatic cancer cells that might help to explain how the disease spreads -- metastasizes -- in so...

(Harvard Medical School) Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have reconstructed an ancient virus that is highly effective at delivering gene therapies to the liver, muscle, and retina. Th...