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Patients suffering from dementia or cancers may receive more end-of-life care compared with people dying from other diseases. Findings suggest that illness type may dictate the quality of care dying patients receive.

Pepsi replaced aspartame in its Diet Pepsi last year due to the sweetener's cancer link. What prompted the beverage company to reintroduce the controversial ingredient?

A UNICEF report has found that around 69 million children will die from preventable causes by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed. Half of the deaths could occur in sub-Saharan Africa communities before the children ...

Regularly using your smartphone in the dark may result in a condition called 'transient smartphone blindness,' new research suggests. Here's what you need to know about it.

Every month, millions of women across the world suffer from premenstrual symptoms such as cramps, mood changes and bloating. A new research suggested that chronic inflammation may be to blame for the condition.

(University of British Columbia) In Vancouver, heat exposure and social vulnerability can be a lethal combination. New research from the University of British Columbia shows a higher risk of mortality during extreme heat...

(Entomological Society of America) Researchers at the University of Florida have found that commercial formulations containing entomopathogenic fungi can not only help to control adult house flies and stable flies, but c...

(Case Western Reserve University) Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine experts and colleagues in the United States and Africa have received an $11 million, five-year NIH grant to understand why some people ...

(Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs) Misuse of prescription pain medications remains a major public health problem -- but programs to prevent it may be underused, according to a study in the July issue of the Journa...

Here's another reason why dogs are wonderful: new research affirms that dogs can be trained to help detect diabetes in patients. The secret lies in their superior sense of smell.

A University of Miami math professor has developed a scientific model to address the various ways the Zika virus proliferates. The study, published June 17, 2016 in Scientific Reports, reveals that mosquito control shoul...

WHO has announced the appointment of Dr Peter Salama as the Executive Director of its new Health Emergencies Programme, at the level of Deputy Director-General. He takes up his new post on 27 July 2016. Dr Salama is from...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If you think you're too young to have a stroke ... think again. In the United States, 25 percent of all stroke patients are under 65, and there has been a steep increase in strokes amo...

(IOS Press) Satellite cells are stem cells found in skeletal muscles. While transplantation of such muscle stem cells can be a potent therapy for degenerative muscle diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, these ce...

(North Carolina State University) Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that therapeutic stem cells exit the bloodstream in a different manner than was previously thought. This process, dubbed an...

(Tufts University, Health Sciences Campus) Researchers at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts, led by Jonathan Garlick, have established for the firs...

(Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) A team of Russian scientists proposed an efficient approach to a novel agents with anticancer activity. A synthesis of these compounds is based on compounds extracted from par...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) NIAID-supported researchers have used genetic sequencing to show that the 2009 global H1N1 influenza pandemic began in central Mexico, originating in pigs and s...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a five-year, $1.225 million federal grant to discover progesterone-like compounds from commonly consumed botanicals and learn how the...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) TCT 2016 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics) is the annual Scientific Symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). It is the world's premier educational meeting ...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Persistent diarrhea, which is diarrhea that lasts at least 14 days, is an illness typically caused by parasites or bacteria and requires accurate diagnosis in order ...

(University of Oxford) Oxford University researchers are closer to solving a decade-old mystery after discovering that a set of genes they are studying play a key role in early human development.