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It's not uncommon for pregnant women to get ultrasounds during the course of their pregnancy to see how their baby is doing. However, researchers are saying that ultrasounds may be doing more harm than good.

Infants are fragile, susceptible to various conditions because of their delicate state. Those predisposed to asthma, however, may find protection from respiratory systems if they are breastfed.

Can one bad thing lead to something good? Researchers have finally uncovered how smoking affects weight loss exactly, saying cigarettes have a hand in reducing calorie intake.

(Brown University) In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists shows how mutations in the gene GPT2 lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative brain disease.

(sphingotec GmbH) In the CIAO (Cilento Intitiative on Aging Outcome) pilot study, on some of the oldest people of the world, researchers discovered that the perfusion of organs and muscles of the centenarians was as effi...

(European Lung Foundation) A study presented Sept. 6, 2016, at this year's European Respiratory Society International Congress in London, UK, shows that adults admitted to hospital during school holidays are 38 percent m...

(University of California - San Diego) Biochemists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could finally lead to a vaccine against this hi...

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Obesity almost always increases cancer risk and worsens outcomes, but researchers led by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report that overweight patients with advanced kidney canc...

(University of California - San Diego) Using an experimental co-culture approach in which two different types of neurons from a mouse model of Huntington's disease (HD) are grown side-by-side, connecting to form critical...

(The Lancet) A year's course of benralizumab injections has led to a significant decrease in the frequency of asthma exacerbations -- cutting the rate of exacerbations by a third to a half compared with placebo among peo...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A new class of drugs called HIF-2 inhibitors is more effective and better tolerated than the standard of care drug sunitinib in treating kidney cancer, researchers with the Kidney Cancer ...

(Stanford University Medical Center) Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward...

(European Society for Medical Oncology) Deaths from ovarian cancer fell worldwide between 2002 and 2012 and are predicted to continue to decline in the USA, European Union and, though to a smaller degree, in Japan by 202...