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In industrialized countries, a particularly high number of people suffer from arteriosclerosis -- with fatal consequences: Deposits in the arteries lead to strokes and heart attacks. A team of researchers under the leade...

While a small number of people account for a disproportionately large portion of health services use, heavy users of mental health care have substantially different patterns of health care use than other heavy users of h...

Experts claimed that popular detoxing schemes such as juice cleanses are a waste of time and money. The body's internal detoxification system, which includes the skin, kidney, lungs, liver among others, gets rid of toxin...

A drug commonly used to treat leukaemia is showing potential as a treatment that could slow the progression of the muscle-wasting condition, Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Researchers have found that men who take aspirin regularly significantly reduced their risk of dying from prostate cancer by nearly 40 percent. About one in seven men in the United States will be diagnosed with the disea...

The e-cigarette industry is spending tens of millions of dollars to target teens with advertising, the agency says. The industry faces little in the way of federal regulation of such advertising, it points out.

A large-scale twin study has found that when a twin sibling is diagnosed with cancer, the other twin is also at a high risk for developing any type of the disease. Heritability plays a large role in this development, exp...

The FDA said pelvic mesh implants used for pelvic organ prolapse surgeries in women will now be classified as class III or high-risk devices. It also started to require a pre-market approval application from manufacturer...

An average woman self-criticizes at least eight times a day. Physical looks, weight, money, career and relationships are the areas women commonly find faults with.

A new child-friendly tuberculosis drug is expected to be released in early 2016. The drug, specially manufactured for children, will come in dissolvable tablets with sweet flavours and accurate dosages.

Eleven-year-old Lewis Deakin became the first child who had mastectomy in the UK. It was performed as part of the treatment for his arteriovenous malformation, a rare disorder leading to benign tumor growth in his chest.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) The USPSTF recommendation against regular prostate specific antigen screening for prostate cancer has been in place for 2.5 years. Although the number of prostate needle biopsies has been reduc...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) A newly NIH funded clinical trial by University of Colorado Cancer Center investigators and collaborators is evaluating a new method for pinpointing and sparing healthy lu...

(Florida Atlantic University) Although a number of randomized trials demonstrate the clear benefits of mammography screening in women up to age 74 on reducing mortality, data are sparse in women over the age of 74, espec...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Pediatric oncologists from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have reported their latest results in devising new treatments for stubbornly deadly forms of the childhood cancer n...

(Elsevier) The first issue of Elsevier's new open access journal Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications features a new method to make cancer clinical trials more effective, a better way of determining whether a tria...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) Bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2) is used clinically to promote bone repair. However, the high BMP2 concentrations required to stimulate bone growth in humans may produce life-threatening adv...

(Research!America) Research!America urges Congress to take action on several research and innovation priorities in 2016 in order to combat costly and devastating diseases that are taking a toll on our nation's health and...

(Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center) Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center researchers have developed a low cost technology related to sex select semen that can be used with artificial insemination in an...

(University of Florida) If you're under constant stress and can't lose weight, there might be a protein to blame.

(American Chemical Society) In October, an interdisciplinary group of scientists proposed forming a Unified Microbiome Initiative (UMI) to explore the world of microorganisms that are central to life on Earth and yet lar...

(University of Southern California) Researchers have found the 'bad seeds' of liver cancer and believe they could one day reprogram them to remain responsive to cancer treatment, a new USC study has found. The key to dis...