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A federal oversight led to hundreds of companies and clinics offering unapproved stem cell treatments across the United States. These therapies, which offer solutions -- from skin aging to spinal cord injuries, could cau...

The FDA wants you to stop nibbling on raw cookie dough. The rough ordeal may be linked to a recent outbreak of a sickening bacteria.

Men who get too much or too little sleep are at higher risk of developing diabetes, new research suggests. This, however, does not apply to women, experts said.

At least 351 companies across the United States are marketing unapproved stem cell procedures at 570 individual clinics. Such businesses advertise "stem cell" interventions for orthopedic injuries, neurological disorders...

Antibiotics and the immune system are the two forces that cope with bacterial infections. Now, two studies from Isabel Gordo's laboratory, at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal), show for the first time that...

Many women are using fertility or menstrual mobile apps as a form of contraception instead of a tool to help them conceive. A new study finds that many of these apps are ineffective and can even lead to unplanned pregnan...

The older generation is paying the price for their sun-filled holidays years ago. Skin cancer rates among people aged 55 and above spiked dramatically in the past 20 years.

Sacramento is the most expensive city to have a baby through routine vaginal delivery and C-section. A report finds that the cost varies greatly not just from city to city but also from one hospital to another.

What are the top 10 leading causes of death in America? A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds heart disease and cancer continue to top the list.

DALLAS. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Cutting edge technology is giving medical researchers a new window on cellular structure and function that could lead to new treatments for cancer and other diseases. Researchers say the mor...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Improved cancer detection and treatment efforts, combined with demographic trends, are creating larger numbers of older cancer survivors who are likely to have other health cond...

(RIKEN) Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences have developed a new vaccine that involves injecting cells that have been modified so that they can stimulate both an innate immune response and t...

(Karolinska Institutet) Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden have devised a new high-resolution method for studying which genes are active in a tissue. The method can ...

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) In a new report, dozens of scientists, health practitioners and children's health advocates are calling for renewed attention to the growing evidence that many common and wide...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Do you really need to get your eyes checked--even if you haven't noticed any vision problems or eye-related symptoms? More than half of routine eye examinations in asymptomatic patients lead to a ...

(University of California - Davis Health System) An unprecedented alliance of leading scientists, health professionals, and children's and environmental health advocates agree for the first time that today's scientific e...

(Queensland University of Technology) A new study has found many Australian children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) may not be diagnosed until long after initial signs appear, prompting calls for improvements to the...

(Institut Pasteur) Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS were able to make real-time observations over a period of several months that reveal how new adult-born neurons are formed and evolve in the olfactory ...

(Society for the Study of Addiction) A letter from leading international tobacco researchers published today by Addiction calls for the UK government to stop subsidizing films that they claim promote smoking and spend mo...

(University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting increased the work-related physical activity levels of white-collar workers by 10 minutes, accordin...

(Kansas State University) Kansas State University is helping the fight against Zika virus through mosquito research at the Biosecurity Research Institute.

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) Schools are commonly known as breeding grounds for viruses and bacteria, but this may not necessarily be linked to hygiene. New research in mice shows that beca...