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A new study of gut bacteria in premature infants reveals the vast scope of the problem of antibiotic resistance and gives new insight into the extreme vulnerability of these young patients, according to researchers at Wa...

One tornado alone can cause intense destruction, but the largest impact on both death rates and economic losses stems from "outbreaks," in which six or more tornadoes occur within a limited time.

A mice study has found that chronic, long-term stress can lead to brain inflammation and short-term memory loss. The new findings can lead to new immune-based treatments.

New research presents strong evidence that the Zika virus can indeed cause a range of abnormalities in pregnant women infected with the virus -- with the effects manifesting any time during pregnancy. Some of the abnorma...

Applegate Farm's supplier Perdue Foods LLC pulled out 4,530 pounds of chicken nuggets from the market after consumers found small, solid plastic pieces inside the nuggets. To date, no health reports have been linked to t...

How can something so tasty prevent obesity? It seems unlikely but researchers have found that turning to peanuts and peanut butter as snack substitutes led to a BMI drop in children at high risk of being overweight or ob...

There is much to learn about how birth defects form. For now, researchers have developed a new placental model that helps explain how infections cross from mothers to their babies.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced that he no longer needs to receive treatment for melanoma. His doctors determined that he does not need to take his cancer medicine anymore following an MRI scan that lasted f...

White bread, corn flakes and other food items high in carbohydrates may increase the risk of lung cancer. Diet and lung cancer development have long been thought to have a connection - finally revealed now.

A new study has found that alcohol consumption doubles the risk of strokes and heart attacks within hours. Researchers have found that the effects of alcohol vary on the amount of intake and time.

A new study has found that feeding peanut mush to babies could prevent allergies to the legume later on. But what is the mechanism that makes this food allergy prevention possible?

The National Health Service will provide a £600 million fund to hospitals so staff can take fitness classes to boost their well-being. The initiative is part of the agency's measures against obesity.

(National Science Foundation) Computer science researchers from the University of Rochester have developed an app for health departments that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to identify likel...

(Wiley) New research from the Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project shows that genetics plays a role in sleep/wake timing of seizures. Researchers studied 1,395 individuals with epilepsy in families containing multiple people ...

(Wiley) In a recently published study, providing advice over a 5-year period about leading a healthy lifestyle reduced the risk of heart-related deaths over the next 40 years.

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice) A new study led by researchers from the The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice examines the extent and ways in which accountable ca...

(University of Nottingham) Scientists at The University of Nottingham's National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics have just published the third in a series of papers in the journal Scientific Reports looking at th...

(Entomological Society of America) Members of the media are invited to attend a one-day event on the mosquito that transmits, Zika, chikungunya, dengue, and yellow fever in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil on March 13, 2016.

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) People with a specific gene mutation have a 50 percent lower risk of suffering a heart attack. This is what an international team of researchers headed by the cardiologist Professor...

(Aarhus University) New mothers who suffer from depression and other psychiatric disorders face a heightened risk of taking their own lives during the first year after they give birth, a new study shows. The study, which...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) A new study by researchers at The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has shown that targeting both CDK4 and ARK5, proteins re...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Refugees seeking asylum in the United States are twice as likely to be granted protection if their application is supported by medical documentation of torture, writes Jule...