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(Northwell Health) Clinical trial data published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) demonstrates stimulating the vagus nerve with an implantable bioelectronic device significantly improved meas...

Helsinki, July 4, 2016: Women who are overweight or obese pose an ongoing challenge for the fertility clinic. Many studies show that these patients are at increased risk of infertility and are less likely than normal-wei...

Using a novel, newly developed mouse model that mimics the development of Alzheimer's disease in humans, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have been able to determine that a one-two punch of major biological "insults" m...

Study finds that "drunkorexia," the meal-skipping and alcohol-binging trend, is more common than previously thought. It is more popular among young women in college who use extreme weight-loss or weight-control methods t...

Where's my daddy? Sperm-donor kids are asking questions about their biological fathers starting at 3 years old. The new research is the first to study the emotions of donor-conceived children.

Do you often find yourself forgetting the names of your family members or close friends? Do you often fail to recall where you placed your car keys? The FDA suggests that certain types of memory lapses should prompt scre...

HOUSTON, Texas. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Using the sense of touch to replace the sense of hearing sounds like science fiction, but it's very much a reality and it could be a game-changer for the profoundly deaf. It started ...

(Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed I.R.C.C.S.) A study based on over 23,000 Italian citizens recruited in two large epidemiological studies does justice to one of the fundamental elements of the Mediterranean di...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Despite its occasional use as an adjunct in IVF, human growth hormone appears of little benefit to women having difficulty conceiving. Indeed, in an Australian/New ...

(University of Groningen) A study that is first in its kind and published in Nature Medicine today has looked at how far genetic factors control the immune cell response to pathogens in healthy individuals. A team invest...

(University of California - San Diego) Mice are one of the most commonly used laboratory organisms, widely used to study everything from autism to infectious diseases. Yet genomic studies in mice have lagged behind those...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Three in four women starting fertility treatment will have a baby within five years, whether as a result of the treatment or following natural conception. The figur...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Despite the claims and counter-claims for new embryo assessment techniques introduced over the past two decades, the search for the holy grail of assisted reproduct...

(Washington University School of Medicine) While immune therapy has proven effective in treating certain types of cancer, especially lung cancer and melanoma, tumors of the pancreas remain among the most difficult to tre...

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Women who are overweight or obese pose an ongoing challenge for the fertility clinic. Many studies show that these patients are at increased risk of infertility and...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Using a novel, newly developed mouse model that mimics the development of Alzheimer's disease in humans, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have been able to determine that a one-two punch of maj...

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT engineers have designed programmable RNA vaccines that could be rapidly manufactured and deployed. The vaccines have been shown effective against Ebola, H1N1 influenza, and Tox...