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High doses of statin drugs may prove to be beneficial in treating patients with age-related macular degeneration. Researchers believe the drug could help restore the patients' blurred or lost vision.

A newly developed closed-loop insulin delivery system has been shown to be more effective at keeping blood sugar levels low in young patients with type 1 diabetes. The device makes use of a smartphone app to monitor the ...

Extreme weather conditions in Northeast Brazil may have possibly driven the sudden surge in Zika virus cases in the country. They may have also caused the rise of the population of aedes mosquitoes, researchers said.

A study found that open-mouth breathing during sleep can increase the risk for tooth decay. The findings support the theory that breathing through the mouth while sleeping is associated with dental disease such as enamel...

In the past, it is well-known that imaging procedures can cause cancer because of radiation. Now, researchers debunked the widespread and old belief about medical imaging.

Nearly 30 years after the AAP declared that anesthetics should be used on infants that undergo invasive surgeries, old beliefs are still held by medical practitioners. Read why it's time for surgeons to also provide infa...

Individuals with high body mass index are often considered as unhealthy. By looking at the link between BMI and health markers, however, researchers find that many obese and overweight individuals are metabolically healt...

Amgen pioneered in establishing a platform for failed efforts in replicating studies. This will allow companies and academic researchers to share replications to others so it will prevent them from wasting time and effor...

The five-second rule is not an urban myth. Apparently, there's some serious science behind it. NASA scientists explain how and why eating your dropped cookie may or may not be okay.

(American Geriatrics Society) Delivering high-quality health care for this ethnically diverse group means that all clinicians, no matter where they practice, should develop interpersonal skills that enable them to naviga...

(EMBO) The Government of the Republic of India, EMBO and its intergovernmental funding body, the European Molecular Biology Conference, have signed a Cooperation Agreement to strengthen scientific interaction and collabo...

(Kaiser Permanente) A new study from Kaiser Permanente's Vaccine Study Center found that the Tdap booster vaccine provides moderate protection against whooping cough during the first year after vaccination, but its effec...

(University of Eastern Finland) Sufficient intake of fortified dairy products is of significant importance for the serum vitamin D level in primary school children, shows a new study from the University of Eastern Finlan...

(NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute) National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a striking signature in tumor DNA that occurs in five different types of cancer. The specific signature results fro...

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Scientists have identified a quantitative method to measure changes in biomarkers, which may reduce or eliminate the need for invasive biopsies. The method is d...

(Elsevier Health Sciences) A study in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describes a new personalized DNA-based digital assay that detects persistent chronic myeloid leukemia in 81 percent of samples taken from a group...

(Michigan State University) Michigan State University researchers will use nearly $250,000 from the US Department of Commerce to test whether recycling and repurposing building materials is an effective solution to econo...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The London-based LouLou Foundation and the Orphan Disease Center of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have established a Program of Excellen...

(American University) A small pilot study conducted at the Washington, DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center reveals that veterans who practiced meditation reported a 20 percent reduction in pain intensity (how bad pain hur...

(University of Vermont) Roughly 15 years ago, a team of Vermont researchers discovered the precise malfunction of a specific protein in the heart that leads to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common culprit in cases of su...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) A look-back analysis of HPV infection antibodies in patients treated for oropharyngeal (mouth and throat) cancers linked to HPV infection suggests at least one of the antibodies could be useful i...

(University of Iowa Health Care) Researchers at the University of Iowa have used personalized proteomics to devise a successful treatment strategy for a patient with uveitis, a potentially blinding eye disease that can h...