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Early pesticide exposure is linked to poor lung function in children of farming families. Each tenfold increase in levels of organophosphate urinary metabolites was linked to a 159-millimeter decrease in lung function.

New England Journal of Medicine, Ahead of Print.

The largest and fastest-growing segment of people with epilepsy are those age 60 and older. People with epilepsy face a number of related health challenges, including cognitive, physical and psychological disorders. But ...

Researchers have found that people do change in the presence of new romance. According to them, teens have the tendency to take on the characteristics of their partners while in a relationship.

In 2015, there has been an increased number of Tularemia or rabbit fever cases reported in four states. A total of 100 instances of the disease were reported within nine months, whereas the annual U.S. average is 125 cas...

Novartis' Midostaurin showed promising results in the survival rate of patients diagnosed with AML. Also known as PKC412, the drug will be set for regulatory submissions by 2016.

The speed at which an elderly individual is walking may be an indicative of an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD). This is because slow walking speed is a sign of increased amyloid deposits or plaques in the brai...

The Attorney General of California has approved a deal for new management of the Daughters of Charity Health System. The deal, however, could result in the purchase of the new system after three years.

Doctors at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine were given the go signal for 60 penis transplants. Wounded U.S. soldiers could soon receive an organ from a deceased doctor, enabling them to regain sensation, u...

New MRI brain scan results of Jimmy Carter showed no signs of cancer. The former president announced the good news at a Sunday school, where the people applauded and celebrated.

Gene therapy appeared beneficial in X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID-X1). Typically affecting men, Bubble Boy disease is a rare genetic disorder caused by IL2RG gene mutations.

A CDC report said a superbug belonging to the carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae family is on the rise in the US. It was deemed a tricky superbug as it is not readily detected like others, earning the title 'Phantom...

High cholesterol level is a major risk to cardiovascular diseases. However, a CDC report showed that 44.5 percent of Americans who should be taking cholesterol-lowering drugs are not doing so, foregoing prescribed treatm...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently announced a three-year, $478,000 grant to Samuel Black, professor of veterinary and animal sciences at the University of Massachuset...

(University at Buffalo) Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic proportions, but new research led by UB psychiatric nursing researcher Yu-Ping Chang found motivational interviewing, a form of behavioral counseling...

(University of Gothenburg) People who are exposed to higher levels of cadmium have an increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures. Cadmium also affects the kidneys. A doctoral thesis at Sahlgrenska Academy explored this...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Midostaurin added to standard chemotherapy is the first targeted treatment to improve survival of a high-risk, genetically defined subgroup of patients with acute myeloid leukemia, reported...

(Wiley) Most men who receive penile prostheses are very satisfied with the implants, indicating that the intervention is a valid treatment for erectile dysfunction.

(University of California - Davis) Roughly half of Santa Catalina Island foxes were found to have ear canal tumors, but an ear mite treatment appears to be greatly helping the problem, according to two studies from the U...

(Cornell University) Plenty of companies invest big money to provide their employees with upscale workplace eateries or at least catered meals. But are those companies getting a good return on their investment? According...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researchers will present several landmark studies at the 2015 American Society of Hematology meeting Dec. 5-8, 2015, in ...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) A first-in-human Phase I study of multiple myeloma patients combined expanded cord blood-derived natural killer cells with transplantation of a patient's own stem cells ...