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A 43-year-old man who lost his genitals to a chilldhood accident has been fitted with a bionic penis that can mimic the function of the real organ. It may also help with erection, which would make penetration during sex ...

Michael Riley Jr., a teenage track star in Texas who has qualified for the Junior Olympics, has contracted a brain-eating amoeba after he and his teammates swam in a lake at the Sam Houston State Park.

The number of new dementia cases continues to grow, but not at the same rate as treatment costs, which a report estimates will balloon to $1 trillion by 2018.

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New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 373, Issue 9, August 2015.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

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We often think of our homes as clean and the outdoors as dirty, but it turns out that our homes actually contain a more diverse population of microbes than the dirt outside -- and most of them came from you and your pets...

Drugs used for treating alopecia, or male pattern hair loss, as well as those prescribed for benign prostate enlargement (BPH) could have unwanted sexual side effects such as erectile dysfunction and loss of libido.

Obama's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS strongly urges the White House to push for a wider access to new Hepatitis C drugs, including Gilead's thousand-dollar Harvoni and Sovaldi pills.

Researchers were able to discover that MS risk may be influenced by the genes that cause low vitamin D levels. This study may have practical implications to public health as authors said that vitamin D supplementation pr...

A new proposal made by health care provider Medicare could potentially make it more difficult for its members to receive coverage for more advanced and more expensive prostheses for lower limbs.

A new study further disproves the popularly believed health benefits of fish oil supplements. In a five-year-long study, the NIH followed thousands of elderly people to test the efficacy of fish oil in slowing down cogni...

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Notre Dame suggests that women are likely to be influenced by romantic opportunities when it comes to their sexual identities.

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