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Patients requiring pacemakers are often troubled with the presence of leads in the device. Now, a clinical trial that investigated the efficacy and safety of a leadless cardiac pacemaker device provides promising results...

Health experts recommended daily walking of at least 20 to 25 minutes that involve brisk walking and slow jogging saying that exercise can reduce ageing and increase average lifespan.

An abused pit bull who was found without a nose and gravely injured bones is now recovering from a reconstructive nose surgery at a veterinary hospital in Southeast Florida. The dog's rescuers are relieved after the succ...

Famed neurologist and bestselling author Dr. Oliver Sacks passed away in his Manhattan home on Sunday, according to his assistant. Sacks was 82 years old.

Researchers found that taking a mid-day nap helps reduce blood pressure and the risk of a heart attack. The researchers also found that the longer the sleep, the more beneficial it becomes for patients with hypertension.

Researchers looked at suicide data from all over the world and found that among depressed patients, those with states of mania are at a higher risk. The researchers highlight the importance of paying close attention to m...

Scientists saw changes in brain structure when they scanned the brains of females who became male transsexuals and were given testosterone in the process, seeing the brain structure change into that of a man's. The resea...

31 Aug 2015: Women aged 45 years and under with diabetes have a six-fold risk of heart attack, according to research presented at ESC Congress today.1 The study in more than 7 000 women also found that young women who ha...

Bayer is looking at leading the cardiovascular drug race with its new anti-hypertensive drug moving on to its final stages of clinical trials. The said drug called Finerenone may provide effective and safe benefits as pe...

Tests on body of woman who died in northern Sierra Leone come back positive for the virus. The country had just begun 42-day coundown toward being declared Ebola-free.

30 Aug 2015: Particulate matter and NO2 air pollution are associated with increased risk of severe heart attacks despite being within European recommended levels, according to research presented at ESC Congress today by ...

(Wiley) Contrary to recent reports, Boston-based researchers found that osteoarthritis patients who had total knee or hip joint replacement surgery, known as arthroplasty, were at increased risk of heart attack (myocardi...

(Springer) Life on an island isn't always easy. To make the most of the little there is to eat on many Greek islands, the digestive system of Balkan green lizards has evolved considerably compared to family members on th...

(IOS Press) About 50 percent of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience freezing of gait (FOG), an inability to move forward while walking. This can affect not only mobility but also balance. In a new study pub...

(Mayo Clinic) About 20 percent of colorectal cancer patients have cancers that have spread beyond the colon at the time of their diagnosis.

(Boston University Medical Center) Clinicians at Boston Medical Center showed that expanding the number of sites offering office-based opioid treatment with buprenorphine utilizing addiction nurse care managers, training...

(University of California - Los Angeles) Men who buy sex have less empathy for women in prostitution than men who don't buy sex and are more likely to report having committed rape and other acts of sexual aggression, acc...

(European Society of Cardiology) Patients with type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease can safely take the antihyperglycemic drug sitagliptin without an increased risk of cardiovascular complications -- even if they h...

(Northwestern University) A new $6.25 million NIH grant will create a Third Coast Coast Center for AIDS Research to help investigators from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and others across the city of...

(Group Health Research Institute) In a randomized trial, people with chronic or recurrent depression benefited from self-management support that included regular outreach care management and a self-care group with a comb...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Chester County Hospital were announced among the 2015 class of ...

(University of California - Davis Health System) In addition to restricting when and where tobacco is used at work, UC Davis Health System research shows that employers can do something else to reduce smoking: raise wage...