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Sugar may help detect how malignant a tumor is. A new study found that the more a tumor consumes sugar, the more malignant it is.

Watching the hands of the clock tick by won't do you any good, as a new study revealed that people who are impatient are more likely to age prematurely. Researchers found a link between impatience and the tips of DNA cal...

Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone in 2014, returns to London. Authorities say she is stable but returned for late complications due to Ebola.

Experts in Canada ruled against the use of colonoscopy for routine colon cancer screening. Instead, the medical panel suggested fecal occult blood test every two years or a flexible sigmoidoscopy every 10 years.

Zika virus, a 40-nm sized capsule of about a dozen genes, is on the move. The recent flare-up of cases in Brazil has diffused across borders into Colombia and Venezuela, Mexico and Puerto Rico. And while the full extent ...

They warn that newborns may develop infections from exposure to vaginal bacteria, and suggest that encouraging breast feeding and avoiding unnecessary antibiotics may be much more important.

A mere 5 percent loss in body weight can lower risks for developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and improve insulin sensitivity. It may not bring dramatic cosmetic changes, but it is packed with significan...

Women with estrogen-dependent breast cancer are told to steer free of the hormone. U.S. gynecologists, however, said using vaginal estrogen does not seem to pose risks for breast cancer recurrence.

One of the biggest food companies in the world, Mars Inc., recalled chocolate bars across 55 countries. This is after a customer found a piece of plastic inside a Snickers bar in Germany.

Experts at the CDC are investigating 14 new reports of the Zika virus having been transmitted from person to person through sexual intercourse. If confirmed, this could produce major implications to the government's effo...

Graphic warnings printed on cigarette packs are supposed to discourage smoking. A new study, however, has found the images do not discourage smokers from lighting up.

Scientists from Texas Children's and Houston Methodist hospitals have developed the first rapid test in the United States that is designed to confirm Zika virus infection in individuals. The new procedure aims to reduce ...

A lot of mothers and health practitioners opt for vaginal seeding. Doctors warn that this practice, which has not been proven to be effective yet, may increase the infant's risk of infection.

(American Brain Tumor Association) A new report published in the journal Neuro-Oncology and funded by the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) finds that malignant brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer-rela...

(American College of Emergency Physicians) For the small segment of the emergency population whose acute behavioral disturbance does not respond to traditional sedation, ketamine appears to be effective and safe, accordi...

(FHI360) Investigators from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) today announced key results from the HPTN 073 Study at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, Massachusetts. The s...

(Mayo Clinic) Keeping the mind active may delay symptoms of Alzheimer's disease; however, the activity does not change the underlying disease in the brain for most people, according to a study published today in the onli...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Sideline vision tests to detect concussion are increasing in youth and pro sports, but a new study from researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center's Ru...

(Boston University Medical Center) A new study demonstrates that pediatric patients with asthma who left the hospital with their prescription medications made fewer emergency department (ED) visits after they were discha...

(Ottawa Hospital Research Institute) Why would a bacteria-killing protein be present in an area of the body that is not normally exposed to bacteria, like the pancreas? Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the Universi...

(Arizona State University) In a new study, Debra Hansen, a research professor at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, explores an innovative means of investigating membrane proteins produced by a pair of highl...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Slow-wave sleep -- the deeper sleep during which the brain turns each day's events into permanent memories -- is fragmented in adulthood in people exp...