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The squalid conditions in ISIS-controlled Syria create ideal breeding grounds for a flesh-eating disease that is currently sweeping across the Middle East. The conditions in conflict zones and refugee camps can bring the...

Think the Memorial Day weekend got the better of you? Here are a few simple tips to help you effectively bounce back after a holiday binge.

The Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book are $150 off right now at Best Buy. Check out the deals on the tablet and 2-in-1, along with a recap of what specs and features they have to offer.

The American Red Cross has launched its blood donation campaign in the summer, a time when there are fewer donors making an appointment at blood drives. Learn how to make a blood and platelet donation.

Being surrounded by relatives and workmates who are smarter than you can help boost your IQ, a renowned psychologist has revealed. His research contrasts the notion that intelligence is static.

30 May 2016 - To mark World No Tobacco Day, WHO is launching a new guide to plain packaging of tobacco products, which gives governments the latest evidence and guidance on implementing the measure.

Here are expert tips on how to use sunscreen and choose the right product in order to protect yourself from sunburn and skin cancer, which affects one out of five in the United States.

A breakthrough fabrication method developed by scientists in Singapore can be adjusted to suit every patient's personalized medication. This invention is in the form of 3D-printed pills.

Those Facebook and Instagram posts could be strong indicators of an "alcohol identity." A new study found that social media posts about alcohol consumption are stronger predictors of booze problems compared with actual d...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) A new study finds that implementing the United Nations targets for HIV testing and treatment would be an expensive but ultimately very cost-effective way to increase survival, reduce the ...

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) The use of next-generation gene sequencing in newborns in neonatal intensive care units may improve the diagnosis of rare diseases and deliver results more quickly to anxious famili...

(Diabetologia) A new study published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that children with a strong family history of cardiovascular disease and/or type 2 diabetes w...

(RIKEN) Neurons in the brain need well-timed waves of activity to organize memories across time. In the hippocampus, temporal ordering of the neural code is important for building a mental map of where you've been, where...

(University of Colorado at Boulder) A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study shows painkillers paradoxically prolong pain in rats, a study that could have far-reaching effects for humans.

(Rockefeller University Press) Researchers at the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research have discovered that the ends of heart muscle cell chromosomes rapidly erode after birth, limiting the cells' ability ...

(Canadian Association for Neuroscience) Research by Dr. Shernaz Bamji at the University of British Columbia uncovers the action mechanism of an enzyme called DHHC9 in normal development and function of neural networks in...

(RIKEN) Research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan has revealed that a molecule involved in fish reproduction activates the brain via the nose. The pheromone is released by female zebrafish and sensed by smel...

(Yale University) Early exposure to nicotine can trigger widespread genetic changes that affect formation of connections between brain cells long after birth, a new Yale-led study has found. The finding helps explains wh...

(University of Bristol) Tiny, vibrating hairs may explain how bumblebees sense and interpret the signals transmitted by flowers, according to a study by researchers at the University of Bristol.

(University of Alaska Fairbanks) A treatment credited with saving about nine million lives a year worldwide and bringing major human diseases including smallpox, tetanus, whooping cough and polio under some degree of con...

(Rockefeller University Press) Oncologists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have successfully treated a patient with metastatic melanoma by combining two different types of immunotherapy. Cassian Yee and col...

(American College of Physicians) An expensive and ambitious initiative to end the AIDS epidemic in South Africa by 2020 would be both extraordinarily effective and cost-effective, according to a modeling study published ...