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The so-called "super lice" spreads across 25 U.S. states. They are resistant to majority of OTC treatments and drugs including pyrethroids.

(St. Michael's Hospital) The number of men smoking tobacco in India rose by more than one-third to 108 million between 1998 and 2015, according to a new study published today in the journal BMJ Global Health.

Understanding the scale and range of neurological disease associated with Zika virus infection is an urgent priority, warn researchers from the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection and Global Health.

The first uterus transplant in the U.S. was performed on Wednesday after nine hours of surgery. Further details will be released next week in a news conference, but the doctors said that the patient is now in a stable co...

Doctors from Archbishop Loayza National Hospital in Peru removed a 35-pound ovarian tumor from a woman. It looked like she was pregnant, but twice the size.

Johnson & Johnson is in hot water after its baby products were linked to cancer.

Squishiness may be the key feature to determine which embryos are viable for IVF treatment. The study could help revolutionize the way scientists pick which eggs should be implanted for IVF patients.

Health officials in Canada have confirmed three new cases of Zika virus in its three provinces. One of the infected patients had traveled to Colombia and returned home, the health ministry said.

Artificially-grown mouse sperm has been created and used to impregnate female mice, Chinese researchers report. Why do some scientists doubt the reports?

When a virus enters the body, the immune system acts to fight it. Researchers found that influenza can cheat the body's protective mechanism and go undetected.

Tens of thousands of children diagnosed with asthma may not actually have the condition, a new report suggests. Researchers have pointed to over-diagnosis and over-prescription.

The Ebola virus infected thousands of people in West Africa in 2014. Many survived but they are faced with long-term health problems.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined that light reflectance spectroscopy can differentiate between malignant and benign prostate tissue with 85 percent accuracy, ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A novel HIV-based lentiviral vector can introduce a gene to pancreatic tumor cells that makes them more sensitive to the chemotherapeutic drug gemcitabine, without integr...

(Penn State) With an increasingly aging prison population, end-of-life care for inmates is becoming a more prominent issue, according to Penn State nursing researchers. End-of-life -- EOL -- care can be complicated, no m...

(Pharmamar) PharmaMar has announced the start of an open-label multi-center two-stage Phase II trial with the anti-tumor drug PM184. The trial will be conducted in 10 European clinical centers and will include 106 patien...

DALLAS. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports 3.8 million sports concussions a year, not just in football, but in all sports, among all ages. The pros get a lot of attention, but what is the ...

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues in Spain and Germany, have unraveled how elevated levels of particula...

(University of California - Los Angeles) Why do opponents of same-sex marriage really oppose it? A new UCLA psychology study concludes that many people believe gays are more sexually promiscuous than heterosexuals and ma...

(University of Leicester) University of Leicester research suggests that women who feel more vulnerable to criminal victimization tend to be more attracted to dominant men.

(University of Liverpool) Understanding the scale and range of neurological disease associated with Zika virus infection is an urgent priority, warn researchers from the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection a...

(University of Minnesota Academic Health Center) A potential correlation between pre-labor cesarean delivery (PLCD) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) could offer new targets for cancer prevention research, according...