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(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Lung ultrasound has been shown to be highly effective and safe for diagnosing pneumonia in children.

Around the world, antibiotic use and resistance is increasing while the discovery of new antibiotics has nearly halted.

Older men who undergo testosterone-suppressing therapy to treat prostate cancer may experience a higher risk of developing clinical depression later in life. This risk seems to increase the longer they stay on the therap...

Stanford doctor and wilderness medicine expert Grant Lipman said that all it takes to prevent painful foot blisters is to use inexpensive paper tape. Learn how this common drugstore product can serve as a cheap blister p...

Apparently, life expectancy is linked to a person's income. In some cities, however, those who belong to the low-income quartile had worst life expectancies than those from other areas, a Stanford study found.

Chinese scientists have edited the genes of human embryos to help make them resistant to HIV infections. It is the second published experiment of its kind, but how did it fare using the controversial CRISPR technology?

Scientists discovered 13 genetic superheroes, individuals with the rare ability to resist devastating diseases. This could pave way for new therapeutic strategies.

For the first time, scientists developed brain scans of people who were high on LSD and saw how the psychedelic substance affects brain activity and connectivity. They found that LSD makes the brain more complete.

How do you resolve a quick-changing viral strain that can kill hundreds of people? DARPA wants to create vaccines that can shape-shift and adapt real-time.

Fresh pear consumption every day may help improve blood pressure and vascular function in middle-aged men and women with metabolic syndrome, according to a new study.

TAMPA, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The statistic is stark: if you have a cardiac arrest and you're not at a hospital, nine out of 10 people will die. But CPR can more than double those survival chances. And, anyone can do...

(McGill University) Depression may compound the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people with such early warning signs of metabolic disease as obesity, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels, according ...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) Cancer Research, the premier journal published by the American Association for Cancer Research, is celebrating its 75-year history. As part of the cele...

(American Geriatrics Society) Presentations at the prestigious Plenary Paper Session at AGS16 (May 19-21; Long Beach, Calif.) represent some of geriatrics most promising scholarship as assessed by peer experts and progra...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Children raised by same-sex female parents with a stable family life show no difference in general health, emotional difficulties, coping and learning behavior, compared to children of different-s...

(University of Oxford) Researchers have identified new biomarkers for Tuberculosis (TB) which have shown for the first time why immunity from the widely used Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is so variable.

(American Geriatrics Society) More than 2,000 physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, social workers, long-term care and managed care providers, healthcare administrators, and others will convene at AGS16 ...

(Umea University) When cells divide, the proper balance between the four DNA building blocks is required in order for the DNA to be copied without the introduction of potentially harmful mutations. Researchers at Umeå U...

(University of Virginia Health System) Researchers developing a new form of male contraception have isolated an enzyme they hope will allow them to stop sperm from swimming to the egg.

(Oregon State University) Typical toddlers simultaneously spend about three hours a day in physical activity, play and engagement with objects such as toys, while their peers with mobility disabilities are less likely to...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Radiation is a commonly used therapeutic option to treat liver metastases, with the majority of tumors maintained under control after one year. However, some patients d...

(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) The advent of targeted drugs for a specific type of breast cancer -- HER2 positive -- has dramatically improved survival rates for women with the disease. But a study led by ...