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(European Stroke Organisation (ESO)) Over 3,500 delegates attended ESOC 2016 today in Barcelona. Today's program included teaching courses, scientific presentations, an official welcome from the ESOC President Professor ...

Climate change brings about a new health epidemic: heat stress nephropathy, where the kidneys suffer from dehydration from rising temperatures and heat stress. Learn more about this chronic kidney disease on the rise.

Scientists have identified genetic mutations that appear to be a key culprit behind a suite of birth defects called ciliopathies, which affect an estimated 1 in 1,000 births. In a paper published online this week in Natu...

Experts were able to develop a low-cost paper test that can detect Zika virus. The test can also detect specific strains of viruses, making it more attractive than existing tests.

UK charity Macmillan Cancer Support warned that the costs of cancer are leaving millions of families financially broken, even forcing them to sell their homes. Here are ways to tackle the financial burden of cancer.

A 7-year-old boy from California donated 13 inches of his own hair to help children with cancer. Now, the young Vinny Desautels is fighting the battle against cancer himself.

Daily consumption of artificially sweetened beverages may increase the risk of an infant to develop childhood obesity. In the U.S., about 25 percent of children aged 2 to 19 years old are obese.

Canada has pledged an additional $785 million CA to support the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the country has a duty to lead by example.

The risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome appeared to rise when babies were swaddled while sleeping on their sides or stomachs. Could SIDS be one of the major dangers of swaddling, a practice meant to keep infants warm an...

Caring.com has released its report on the 10 best and worst states to grow old, taking into consideration quality of life, health care, and finance. Which ones offer the best senior health care costs and assisted living ...

Sanaria Inc.'s experimental malaria vaccine PfSPZ protects half of the study participants who tried it for at least a year. To date, this is the longest duration of malaria protection from an experimental vaccine.

With the growing trend of cosmetic surgeries in Australia is the increased risk of becoming victims of botched procedures. To establish better regulation in the industry, the medical board has issued new guidelines.

Nearly 33,000 heart attack-related deaths could have been prevented if doctors followed the correct patient treatment based on the National Health Service guidelines. The missed intervention places patients at risk of ha...

(International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA)) Innovative graphene technology to buffer the activity of synapses-- this is the idea behind a recently-published study in the journal ACS Nano coordinated by the Interna...

(University of Pennsylvania) In preschoolers, proper nutrition positively affects social development, a connection discovered by University of Pennsylvania researchers Jianghong Liu and Adrian Raine.

(University of Edinburgh) A major study to find interventions that prevent the onset of Alzheimer's dementia has recruited its first participant.The £50 million (€64 m) European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia init...

(McGill University) Scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (MNI) have identified novel gene mutations that cause hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), a step forward in efforts to treat this debili...

(Entomological Society of America) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Entomological Society of America, the IPM Institute of North America, and the North Central IPM Center will hold the 'Integrated T...

(University of Texas at Austin) Scientists have identified genetic mutations that appear to be a key culprit behind a suite of birth defects called ciliopathies, which affect an estimated 1 in 1,000 births.

(Dartmouth College) Health advertorials, or advertisements camouflaged as credible news, succeed in misleading people, in part, by tamping down their skepticism and expectations for truth in advertising, a Dartmouth Coll...

(Thomas Jefferson University) New research shows that more migraines could be safely treated with drugs that are known to constrict blood vessels.

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital used advanced pharmacologic modeling and simulation for the first time to translate promising laboratory results into a phase I clinical trial...