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A study of monozygotic Swedish twins suggests that while a higher BMI was not associated with increased risk of heart attack or death for the heavier twin, it was associated with increased risk for the onset of diabetes ...

Many Americans consider vision loss equally bad as losing one's limb, hearing, memory or speech, a new survey revealed. The findings highlight the importance of support for eye health research.

News Associate professor and chair of emergency medicine at the School of Medicine, Mahadevan traveled to the island country in April to teach some medical procedures to health-care workers there, using simple equipment ...

A new study found that Tinder users are more critical about and are less satisfied with their bodies, which can ultimately cause harm to their level of self-worth.

Article Infusion pumps can have a potent impact on patients' lives, and new technologies are leading to some exciting advances for these devices. For some patients, small pumps that provide instantaneous monitoring and m...

News A novel, pot-shaped, carbon nanomaterial enables the material to gradually release substances contained within and is expected to be beneficial in applications such as drug delivery systems Contributed Author:  Kum...

News The unit is being recalled because the firm discovered that the check valve on the circuit may leak. This could result in the patient re-breathing exhaled gas with reduced oxygen concentration and increased carbon d...

(Brown University) As the state takes a deep look at its hepatitis C epidemic, Brown University researchers have crunched the numbers to project what could be done to lift Rhode Island's burden of death and disease.

(University of Michigan Health System) Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors -- even as it changed the lives of the babies born with it durin...

(Wiley) Catholic hospitals, which represent a growing share of health care in the United States, prohibit staff from providing many common reproductive health services, including ones related to sterilization, contracept...

(Syracuse University) Three Syracuse University researchers, who focus on theoretical soft condensed matter and biological physics, will investigate new collective mechanisms that establish and maintain tumor boundaries ...

(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) Patient safety before, during, and after surgery requires an appropriately educated, committed and empowered health care team, according to recommendations being presented today...

(Northwestern University) Women's decreased ability to produce healthy eggs as they become older may be due to excessive scarring and inflammation in their ovaries, reports a new study in mice. This is the first study to...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) The Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Institute for Global Health has been chosen as one of three study sites in a human safety ...

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) New research published online in The FASEB Journal, describes a protein created by the body's 'biological clock' that actively represses inflammatory pathways w...

(Wiley) Wiley has made available all of its published Zika content on one site .wiley.com/go/zika to coincide with events in Brazil, a territory that has seen increased cases of Zika Virus recently. Access will be freely...

(The Wistar Institute) Scientists at the Wistar Institute have identified a marker that distinguishes PMN-MDSCs from neutrophils in the blood of patients with a variety of cancers. Study results published in the journal ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Therapeutic strategies targeting Alzheimer's disease (AD)-related molecule β-amyloid (Aβ), Tau protein and BACE enzyme have been recently explored. However?the therapeutic efficacy for a si...

(University of Leicester) The first new asthma pill for nearly 20 years has the power to significantly reduce the severity of the condition, a study led by the University of Leicester has found.

(Kaiser Permanente) A new Kaiser Permanente study found that the risk of younger siblings developing an autism spectrum disorder is 14 times higher if an older sibling has ASD. The study, which was published in the Journ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The sudden emergence of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America in 2015-16 has caught the scientific world unawares. A little known disease that was first diagnosed in the Zika forest enviro...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) In contrast to the general belief that the airways of an infant are sterile until after birth, researchers have found that the infant airway is already colonized with bacteria when a...