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Feet experts warn that wearing Crocs all day may not be a good option. Supposedly, the popular rubber clogs do not offer enough support to one's heels.

Nutritional supplements have been proven to be beneficial in many ways. Now, new research suggests that taking a special combination of these supplements may prevent brain cell loss.

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(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) NYU Langone researchers publish first study to quantify nutritional quality of food and drinks endorsed by music celebrities popular among teens.

Researchers found that taking hormonal drugs for 10 years, instead of five, may help prevent breast cancer from coming back. The study may pave the way for new and more effective breast cancer therapy in the future.

For some patients, traditional biopsies that involve tissue samples are not feasible. Blood-based liquid biopsies show promise as a reliable alternative.

Harvard researchers developed a paper-based diagnostic test for Zika that is hoped to be a quick, portable and accurate way to detect the disease. Health officials previously established a definite link between the Zika ...

There might not be any chicken supply for this week's Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong due to bird flu concerns. After droppings tested positive for the H7N9 bird flu strain, Hong Kong has halted the sale of live chicke...

Hostess and Kashi announced a voluntary recall of their food items. Hostess snack cakes and donuts are recalled because of peanut residue, while the Kashi recalls its granola bars over fears of Listeria contamination ris...

The European Commission has approved the world's first gene therapy for children suffering from ADA-SCID, a rare disorder closely linked to the "bubble boy" disease. The new treatment uses gene-editing techniques to fix ...

A novel antibody therapy was found to improve survival rates of patients with stomach cancer. The drug functions by exposing the cancer cells to the body's immune system.

Drug dosing errors led to at least seven methotrexate overdose deaths in Australia - and the numbers are increasing, according to new research. Learn how this rheumatoid arthritis drug can turn into a killer.

CHICAGO. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Clostridium difficile or C. diff is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections and one of the fastest growing superbugs, making it hard to fight with traditional antibiotics. Even ...

(Penn State) Mothers who practiced responsive parenting -- including reacting promptly and appropriately to hunger and fullness cues -- were less likely to have overweight babies at their one-year checkup than those who ...

(University of Georgia) Though eating in moderation might be considered practical advice for healthy nutrition, a new University of Georgia study suggests the term's wide range of interpretations may make it an ineffecti...

(Harvard University) Harvard researchers are among the co-authors of a new study that shows that the increase in life expectancy in the past two decades has been accompanied by an even greater increase in life years free...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital reports that higher blood concentrations of methotrexate during cancer treatment are associated with brain changes and impaired executive func...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center will present results from a phase 1 study of selinexor in combination with liposomal doxorubicin and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed and r...

(BMJ) An effective treatment that can prevent HIV infection and reduce the human and financial costs of the preventable condition is taking too long to be commissioned and made available on the NHS, warns Deborah Gold, c...

(Harvard Medical School) Bone marrow transplantation is the only curative therapy for the millions of people living with blood disorders like sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and AIDS. However, the faulty stem cells must...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Vaccines are usually medicine's best defense against the world's deadliest microbes. However, HIV is so mutable that it has so far effectively evaded both the human immune ...

(University of California - San Diego) In a meta-analysis of hundreds of clinical trials involving thousands of patients, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that therapeutic appro...