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A Johns Hopkins computer scientist played a key role in a new study that analyzed online news and search engine records to gauge the public's response to actor Charlie Sheen's Nov. 17, 2015, disclosure on NBC's TODAY Sho...

Florida State University researchers are working on new approaches to deciphering genetic data that may lead to new, more targeted prostate cancer treatments.

A vaccine introduced in the United States 10 years ago has led to the reduction of HPV prevalence among teenage girls in the country, a new report revealed. Researchers said this indicates that the vaccine is indeed effe...

A renowned Australian scientist dubs homeopathy as a "therapeutic dead-end." Leading an Australian scientific panel's report March last year on the effectiveness of homeopathy, he reminded about the dangers of seeking re...

Iowa confirmed its first case of Zika virus following the infection of a woman who travelled to Central America. The Iowa Department of Public Health, however, assured there is no risk for the general public to contract ...

Eating disorders are severe illnesses that can afflict anyone no matter what age, gender, or race. In time for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, experts revealed that about 30 million Americans will suffer from e...

Getting enough hours of sleep has several benefits such as improved memory. A new study in the United Kingdom explains how sleep fills the brain with important information.

A team of scientists in Canada is preparing to test whether mosquitoes native to the country can become carriers of the Zika virus. Researchers will also examine the chances of the native mosquitoes transmitting the viru...

Rich and educated people live longer than poor people. The disparity has been increasing over time.

A latest analysis has found that long sleepers or those who snooze more than eight hours every night have a much greater risk of suffering a stroke. What accounts for this result, and what role does sleep exactly play in...

Fathers who are constantly under psychological stress may put their kids at risk of diabetes, a new mice study has revealed. Researchers have identified a specific gene affected by stress hormones.

(Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory) The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that assistant professor Sandra Rieger, Ph.D., has identified two drugs that could potentially be used to reverse peripheral nerve d...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Two articles receiving online publication in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine describe systematic reviews of the results of studies investigating either risk factors that contr...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) The antiretroviral drug atazanavir -- sometimes included in treatments to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission during pregnancy -- may have small but significant effects on infant development,...

(Morgridge Institute for Research) Dave Pagliarini, director of metabolism at the Morgridge Institute for Research and associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the US gover...

(University of Michigan Health System) Parents who do not get their children flu shots rate flu vaccine less favorably than other childhood vaccines, a national poll finds.

(University of Pennsylvania) In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Oriol Sunyer of the University of Pennsylvanian and colleagues found that fish induce production of a particular antibody in the...

(Technische Universität Dresden) Researchers at the Medical Faculty of the Technische Universität Dresden and the Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology succeeded in developing a designer...

(University of Granada) Researchers from the Hospital Inmaculada ONCOSUR-Granada hospital and the University of Granada prove that sleep problems are very significant among patients with cancer prior to undergoing radiot...

(Boston University Medical Center) For the first time, researchers at Boston University have shown that T-cell leukemia cells use a particular cycle, called the TCA or Kreb cycle, to support their growth and survival.

(University of Bristol) While the sexual abuse of children is currently an issue at the forefront of public life, concern has focused on the protection of children and the identification of perpetrators.However, a new st...

(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) European men who chose indigenous women as the mothers of their children left their mark on men in the New World. Only 22 percent of Panamanian men have Y-chromosomes of native o...