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(Ohio State University) Quickly uncovering that foodborne illnesses are connected can make all the difference in halting a deadly outbreak. About 276,000 cases of foodborne illness are avoided each year because of PulseN...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Today, Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed too late. In collaboration with a research team at the university and German Center for Neurogenerative Diseases in Göttingen, Researchers at Ruhr-Univers...

Yoga may provide benefits to patients with an abnormal heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation. A new study showed that those who did yoga scored higher in mental tests, had lower blood pressure and heart rate, ...

Contrary to popular belief, spiders like to snack on leaves and saps too. An international team of zoologists documented plant-eating spiders around the world except in Antarctica where no vegetarian activity was observe...

A new report revealed that the spending on prescription drugs in the United States rose to 5.2 percent in 2015, driven by higher medication use and prices. The report included the impact of rebates for the first time.

Researchers found that heart disease risk increases with every extra hour spent on work per week. Here's another reason to wrap up work earlier.

A 3-year-old girl from Washington is suffering from a deadly form of brain cancer. She is too ill to travel but people across the globe are cheering her up by sending her postcards.

Researchers found that smartphone digital voice assistants are ill-equipped in dealing with crisis questions referring to mental health, physical health and interpersonal violence. Four digital voice assistants were exam...

National Napping Day is when you can catch up on your lost hour of sleep from shifting the clock forward for Daylight Saving Time. Experts, however, agree that napping is beneficial and can increase work performance all ...

India's Health Ministry banned more than 300 combination drugs currently sold in the market. The officials said these drugs have no therapeutic justifications, and thus will be prohibited within a few days.

A male contraceptive pill may soon become a reality as scientists claimed they are a step closer to coming up with the right formulation. The news comes 50 years after the oral contraceptive pill in women was developed.

Doctors found that patients prefer using iPads in learning about upcoming procedures than direct consultation. This offers an opportunity for patients to understand procedures before going through them.

PHILADELPHIA. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You can't catch your breath, and then your doctor treats you for asthma, but it keeps getting worse. It's a mysterious disease that affects only women, but there's something simple you...

(Le Bonheur Children's Hospital) Le Bonheur Children's Hospital has received Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Le Bonheur is among only 7 percent of hospitals in the country to have e...

(eLife ) Scientists at the Jagiellonian University in Poland taught Braille to sighted individuals and found that learning such a complex tactile task activates the visual cortex, when you'd only expect it to activate th...

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) The third annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., of The Rockefeller University, for his discovery of leptin and...

(R&D at British American Tobacco) A series of cell-based tests developed to compare the biological impact of cigarette smoke with e-cigarette vapor revealed no activity in cells exposed to vapor from Vype ePen, a commerc...

(Penn State) Customers may respond better to social media campaigns and messages from companies that more frequently interact with consumers than companies seen as credible, but less interactive, according to researchers...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Using a pre-clinical model of obesity, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered that a small, non-coding RNA molecule called miR-181b is an important determinant of...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Adults living with congenital heart disease may have a significantly higher risk of post-traumatic stress disorder than people in the general population. Clinicians and caregivers ma...

(North Carolina State University) A pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Montana 68 million years ago may be the key to discerning gender differences between theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur, species.

(Elsevier) Changes in farming practices over the last 50 years have resulted in decreased agro-diversity which, in turn, has resulted in decreased dietary diversity. The significant impact of this change in dietary richn...