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A comprehensive analysis of changes in the intestinal microbial population during the first three years of life has revealed some of the impacts of factors such as mode of birth - vaginal versus cesarean section - and an...

Drinking coffee isn't going to give you cancer, but they way you drink it might. Those are the findings of 23 scientists from 10 countries who reviewed roughly 1,000 studies looking at the long-debated link between drink...

Beyoncé helps raise over $82,000 for the Flint residents who are still suffering from the city's lead-contaminated water supply. Parkwood Entertainment also presented 'college gifts' to several high school students in D...

Qsymia emerged as the top-performing among FDA-approved and over-the-counter weight loss drugs in a new meta-analysis. The drug proved to be the best in slashing 5 percent of body weight among overweight or obese individ...

A new study has found that people who took pictures of the moments they were in were happier and enjoyed the moments more than those who did not.

Proper folate levels during pregnancy can prevent childhood obesity, especially among the children born to obese mothers. Adequate intake of folic acid can provide long-term protection to the unborn child.

NEW YORK CITY. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Lymphomas are the fifth most common cancer in the United States. Certain forms of the disease called low-grade Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are incurable. Now, researchers are testing a va...

TAMPA, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- They will affect 50 percent of woman ... yet almost no one likes talking about them. They're pelvic floor disorders such as incontinence and prolapse. But, doctors say it's time to leave...

(Michigan State University) New insights into the reproductive secrets of one of the world's tiniest and most destructive parasites -- the Varroa mite -- has scientists edging closer to regulating them. The new Michigan ...

(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) The biopharmaceutical company Celgene has become the fifth company to join the 'Neglected Tropical Diseases Drug Discovery Booster' consortium, a new initiative to accelerate and...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Birth by C-section, exposure to antibiotics and formula feeding slow the development and decrease the diversity of a baby's microbes through the first...

(Cancer Research UK) Cancer Research UK scientists have found that women with advanced ovarian cancer may benefit more from immunotherapy drug treatments if they are given straight after chemotherapy.

(University of Notre Dame) A research team led by University of Notre Dame chemist Brian Baker is developing a new immunotherapy, a treatment that enhances immune system function in order to treat or prevent disease, as ...

(University of Plymouth) Research at Plymouth University investigating a potential therapy for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), the second-most prevalent form of dementia, has received a boost with funding from dementia ...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) A UAB study in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows patients' mobility while hospitalized helps maintain daily activity in older adults.

(Motion PR) New study on nut consumption and prostate cancer published in the British Journal of Cancer.

(University of Melbourne) A team of specialist researchers in Melbourne believe they have found a major response that helps keep the Legionella infection at bay.

(American Association for Cancer Research) A newly devised tumor-specific fluorescent agent and imaging system guided surgeons in real time to remove additional tumors in ovarian cancer patients that were not visible wit...

(University of Pennsylvania) A team from the University of Pennsylvania has helped identify key characteristics that distinguish reserve stem cells from other stem cell populations that had been purported to have similar...

(University of Southern California) Drinking piping hot coffee, tea and the caffeine-infused beverage yerba mate probably causes cancer, the World Health Organization announced. USC's Mariana Stern was part of the panel ...

(Northwestern University) Postpartum depression -- a household term since actress Brooke Shields went public in 2005 about her struggle with it -- is indeed serious. But depression that begins before or during pregnancy ...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Metastatic ovarian cancer patients treated with chemotherapy prior to surgery had altered immune cells in their tumors, and specific alterations identified suggest that immunoth...