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Experts have developed a blood test that can help identify the risk of testicular cancer relapse. Through the approach, low-risk patients may be spared from having to undergo chemotherapy and suffer possible side effects...

Researchers from the Tumour Suppression Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by Manuel Serrano, have discovered the molecular mechanisms that determine cancer predisposition in patients wit...

Researchers in the West Midlands have made a breakthrough in explaining how an incurable type of blood cancer develops from an often symptomless prior blood disorder. The findings could lead to more effective treatments ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered that stressful events that occur during a mother's pregnancy can impact her child's motor skills development. Children born under such circumstances were shown to have a lower scor...

According to a new CDC report, there was lower cigarette and cigar use but increased marijuana use among American teenagers. The battle to significantly reduce teen smoking was considered far from over.

A recent study conducted by animal experts in Australia suggests that a systematic killing of koalas infected with chlamydia can help stop the spread of the disease to other healthy marsupials. The scientists predict tha...

Lamar Odom remains comatose at a Las Vegas hospital while the spotlight is once again on the male sexual enhancer 'herbal Viagra'. Many of these supplements are neither FDA-approved nor always reveal their complete ingre...

After pressing a bottle of oven cleaner to his mouth, Elijah Mole sustained severe burns on his face, mouth, neck and tongue. The accident happened when his dad was cleaning the oven.

A new report released by Accenture suggests that healthcare providers in the U.S. will suffer losses of up to $305 billion in the next five years as a result of cyberattacks. The company said breaches in healthcare-provi...

Antibiotic resistance is making it more dangerous to carry out surgeries and chemotherapies. The risk of acquiring infection after cancer treatment and surgery increases with bacteria growing resistant against antibiotic...

Due to health concerns, Holli Gorveatt's identical twins had to be born separately. Baby Link was delivered prematurely at 23 weeks while his younger twin is set to be born next year.

A new study in Sweden revealed that normalizing dopamine levels in an alcoholic's brain may possibly help curb their booze addiction. Scientists have been working on an experimental drug that will reduce a person's cravi...

Overuse of contraceptive pills has harmful effects to women's health, experts say. If not taken with care, they may cause blood coagulation and other diseases.

You can literally puff the years away. Osaka University researchers proved how smoking affects the aging-related molecule alpha-klotho in the blood serum.

An infant had died after sufferring from suffocation while sleeping with both parents and a sibling in the same bed. A UK coroner had warned parents against this sleeping practice, saying it could indeed increase the ris...

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