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Russia has reportedly developed a new Ebola vaccine that is more powerful than current drugs. This announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin has surprised medical experts from across the world.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 374, Issue 2, Page 182-187, January 2016.

New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 374, Issue 2, Page 188-190, January 2016.

No new case of Ebola infection has been detected in Liberia for at least 42 days since the last confirmed case, according to the World Health Organization. This marks the end of the Ebola outbreak in the West African reg...

Prolonged sitting and inactivity is bad for the health, particularly for obese people. A new study suggests that obese people who spend too much time sitting in front of the TV screen should find ways to reduce the seden...

Some believe that hookah smoking is a less harmful alternative to cigarette smoking. Here's what a comparison of the amount of toxicants inhaled by hookah smokers and cigarette smokers reveals.

Transcendental meditation can reduce the need for medications to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, researchers report. Army clinic finds the technique can help active-duty personnel reduce the symptoms of PTSD.

President Barack Obama pitched a nationwide "moon shot" effort to cure cancer during his 2016 State of the Union address. The initiative, the brainchild of VP Joe Biden, aims to initiate clinical trials in over 20,000 pa...

Dementia is currently an incurable disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Now, an academic in the United Kingdom said new treatments for dementia, and for Alzheimer's disease in particular, may possibly be av...

UK scientists are set to create the first genetically-modified human embryo by March. The proposal to edit "spare" IVF embryos for research purposes is currently awaiting approval from fertility watchdog Human Fertilisat...

Being obese has long been established as a major health risk. Those with prostate cancer, however, will have to be more mindful of their weight as being obese has been found to promote the progression and spread of the d...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Health warning labels similar to those found on tobacco products may have a powerful effect on whether parents purchase sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) for their children, ...

(KU Leuven) Researchers from KU Leuven, Belgium, have identified the cause of abdominal pain in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. As a result, they were able to select a medicine that could reduce or end that pain....

(American Association for Cancer Research) Adolescent girls living in high-poverty communities and majority Hispanic communities were more likely to have received at least one dose of a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine...

(North Carolina State University) Biological anthropologists look at skeletal remains of past cultures to gain insight into how earlier peoples lived, and forensic anthropologists work with modern-day law enforcement to ...

(University of Connecticut) People born with Hajdu-Cheney syndrome develop misshapen skeletons and bones that quickly start to soften and fracture. Now, UConn Health researchers have replicated the disease in mice. A spe...

(McMaster University) Research indicates anti-bacterial strategies need to be tailored to the age of the patient. Aging is accompanied by a chronic state of low-level inflammation -- sometimes called 'inflamm-aging.'

(IOS Press) Graph theoretical analysis is proving to be helpful in understanding complex networks in the brain. Investigators in the Republic of Korea used a graph theoretical approach in examining the changes in the con...

(Texas A&M University) Do students think best when on their feet? Findings published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provide the first evidence of neurocognitive benefits...

(Monell Chemical Senses Center) A new study from the Monell Center, the US Department of Agriculture, and collaborating institutions reports a uniquely identifiable odor signature from mouse models of Alzheimer's disease...

(Kyoto University) In a first, Japanese researchers have regenerated functional joints in frogs by activating a newly-found 'reintegration' mechanism. Further understanding of this process may help transplanted tissues i...

(University of Copenhagen The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) Researchers from the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Copenhagen have developed a cell line, which may be used to investigate new drugs and...