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(MediaSource) A new collaborative research program pairs oncologists who treat childhood and adult sarcomas with veterinarians who manage the same cancers in canine patients.

The body's defences detect and eliminate not only pathogens but also tumour cells. Natural killer cells (NK-Cells) are specifically activated by chemical messengers, the Cytokines, to seek and destroy tumour cells. Veron...

A Washington State University researcher has found that statin drugs can dramatically lower the risk of infections in stroke patients.

A 36-point personalized treatment for Alzheimer's reversed memory loss and sustained improvements in a small study. This gives hope that the condition marked by cognitive decline can be prevented and cured.

The American Red Cross spent 25 percent of the 2010 Haiti earthquake donations for internal expenses, a new Senate report found. The amount is far higher than what the charity originally disclosed.

Patients who underwent angioplasty to clear blocked arteries are at greater risk for heart attack or stroke if they have untreated sleep apnea. How do sleep disorders damage the heart?

Let the young ones sleep. The American Medical Association backs recommendations that classes in middle and high school should not start earlier than 8:30 a.m. to reduce sleep deprivation among teenagers.

Stop, look and order. A study finds food items that have calorie contents designated with traffic light colors can help people choose lower calorie meals compared with food menus without any calorie labels.

Birth defects of six babies and fetuses in the U.S. are linked to the Zika virus. Three infants were born with either microcephaly or brain damage, while three women lost their babies due to stillbirth, miscarriage or pr...

NEW YORK CITY. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- At one time, treatment for lung cancer meant major surgery. Doctors would have to crack a patient's ribs and remove a portion, or whole lobe of a lung. Now, a minimally invasive proce...

(INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale)) How will the traumatic events of the Paris terrorist attacks of Nov. 13, 2015, evolve in people's memories, whether collective or individual? How doe...

(University of California - Davis Health System) Mothers of children with autism and were diagnosed with metabolic conditions during pregnancy, particularly gestational and type 2 diabetes, were more likely to have anti-...

(Aarhus University Hospital) A new study headed by a research group from Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University in Denmark has found new molecular sub-groups in early stages of bladder cancer. This improves the...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing) Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology, and Director of NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health in the Department of Biobe...

(Washington University School of Medicine) A team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a single gene pathway that is vital for Zika and other flaviviruses to spread infection between ce...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Black children who undergo urologic surgery are more likely than white children to have postsurgical complications and hospital-acquired infections 30 days after the surgery. Researc...

(University of Michigan Health System) Despite predictions that expanding Medicaid would crowd doctor's offices with new patients, and crowd out patients with other kinds of insurance, a new University of Michigan study ...

(University of Gothenburg) Women who commit deadly violence are different in many ways from male perpetrators, both in terms of the most common victims, the way in which the murder is committed, the place where it is car...

(Boston University Medical Center) A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center found that the proportion of discharges among minority patients receiving inpatient care at minority-serving hospitals in Massach...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) In the 1950s, thalidomide (Contergan) was prescribed as a sedative drug to pregnant women, resulting in a great number of infants with serious malformations. Up to now, the reasons ...

(Lund University) We know that individuals who smoke take major health risks. Now a new research study from Lund University in Sweden shows that common treatment for breast cancer works less well in patients who smoke, c...

(The Lancet) 2015 was an unprecedented year in the recognition of transgender rights in some high-income countries. However, as a new Series published in The Lancet today reveals, public recognition has yet to translate ...