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Most pregnant women with well-controlled diabetes give birth to healthy children. But their babies run much higher risks of birth defects than babies born to women without diabetes, because very early in embryonic develo...

Having diabetes increases the risk of dying from the effects of a heart attack by around 50 per cent, according to a widespread study.

Gun deaths dropped in Australia following a massive buyback program and tighter gun laws, according to a new study published Wednesday. However, the scientists say they can't decisively prove a connection. Researchers fr...

The incidence of Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism increased significantly in 30 years from 1976 to 2005, Mayo Clinic researchers reported today in a study in JAMA Neurology. This trend was noted in particular for men...

It happened fast. It happened in nearly every hospital in the state of Michigan. And it didn't come with dreaded side effects.

Flesh-eating bacteria or the Vibrio vulnificus infection ruined the family vacation of a 50-year-old man from Texas and left him fighting for his life. Doctors had to amputate the patient's right leg this week.

The first human clinical trial using CRISPR/Cas9 gets approval from the National Institutes of Health. The approved proposal will use the gene-editing tool to target three different types of cancer.

While working as a professor in the sensory-motor systems lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Robert Riener noticed a need for assistive devices that would better meet the challenge of helpi...

Here's a list of birth control apps that deliver contraceptive prescription services to one's smartphone. How do these apps affect in-person doctor visits and rates of teen contraception?

Mosquito saliva can help spread mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue and Zika, according to two new studies. Mosquito saliva tricks the immune cells into spreading any kind of virus throughout the body.

Science breaks down love into chemicals. A new study found that a "love hormone" gene affects social behavior, including a person's ability to form healthy and long-lasting relationships.

The risk of birth defects among twins may be higher among mums who haven't used fertility treatment--which is known to increase the chances of a twin birth--than among those who have used it, finds US research published ...

Researchers blame lack of fiber in the diet for the rising rate of allergies worldwide. How does eating fiber-rich food help those suffering from food allergies?

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Radiation treatment for cancer has become as precise as the tip of a pencil. With pencil beam proton therapy, doctors can pinpoint tumors more accurately than ever before, while gr...

PARK CITY, Utah. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Ellie Shropshire sharpened her culinary skills cooking on private yachts. Fourteen years ago, she took her talents to Park City, Utah and built up a booming catering business using ...

A new AAP statement called for stricter regulations and increased federal resources in protecting children from the dangers of lead. The Flint water crisis serves as an indicator that the war against the neurotoxin is fa...

(University of Leeds) Having diabetes increases the risk of dying from the effects of a heart attack by around 50 percent, according to a widespread study by the University of Leeds.

(American Society for Horticultural Science) Scientists investigated whether regulated deficit irrigation in an ebb and flow system could alleviate the effects of salinity stress on poinsettia. Degree of medium saturatio...

(NIH/National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health) Americans spent $30.2 billion -- $28.3 billion for adults and $1.9 billion for children -- out-of-pocket on complementary health approaches, according to a n...

(American Geriatrics Society) Men were 1.5 to 2 times as likely as women to need help. The odds of needing help were 3 to 5 times greater among people with memory challenges.

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) The Women and Children's Health Research Institute, housed at the University of Alberta has received a gift of $54.5 million to further research in women's children...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Diseases of the eye that cause vision loss and blindness, especially neurodegenerative disorders affecting the retina, are ideal targets for gene therapy, including gene ...