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Merck's cancer drug Keytruda got the nod of U.S. regulators as a first-line drug for treating metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. For the pharmaceutical company, the FDA approval opens a big market for it.

A study published by Chinese scientists suggested neural changes in the brain activity of PTSD patients. The study was carried on 47 children who experienced the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Article Robotic surgeries are on the rise all over the world. Steven Dean gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the software involved. Contributed Author: Steven Dean, QNX Software Systems Topics: Surgical

Early intervention for children suffering from autism spectrum disorders has been found to be long-term efficient. Communication and severity of the symptoms have improved, especially on children whose parents were part ...

The American Cancer Society found that smoking caused 30 percent of cancer deaths in the United States. The rate hovered around this percentage for all states except Utah, which registered 22 percent.

(American Chemical Society) This spring, a Pennsylvania woman who developed a urinary tract infection (UTI) became the first patient in the US reported to have a bacterial infection resistant to colistin, an antibiotic o...

(ETH Zurich) Targeted iron supplements in biscuits can achieve a striking reduction in the level of lead in children's blood in regions with high exposure to this toxic heavy metal. This has been demonstrated for the fir...

News With the Unyvero, diseases such as pneumonia, implant or tissue infections are diagnosed within four to five hours. Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Medical Diagnostics

News A team of researchers has created glass fibers with single-crystal silicon-germanium cores. Contributed Author: Norwegian University of Science and Technology Topics: Surgical

Doctors in Miami are monitoring the medical status of a pregnant woman who tested positive for Zika virus. Despite the infection being detected during the 16th week of pregnancy, the woman's baby seems to be developing n...

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A team led by Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher Mark Greenwald, Ph.D., will use a four-year, $2,279,723 competitively renewed grant ...

(University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have identified a set of bacterial genes that may help them find ways to lessen the severity of the disease malaria. Their fin...

(Emory Health Sciences) A study by scientists at the Emory Vaccine Center, in collaboration with the biotechnology company Atreca, Inc., has found that antibodies generated from the blood of survivors of Ebola virus dise...

(University of Helsinki) The effect of vitamin E on health outcomes may depend on various characteristics of people and their lifestyles. Therefore, a single universal estimate of the vitamin E effect might be substantia...

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) New research published online in The FASEB Journal suggests that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (found in fish oil), could improve the function of the glym...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) A UNC School of Medicine dermatologist recently conducted a study to determine if the way a prescription was written -- either traditionally or electronically -- played a role i...

(Indiana University) Clinician-researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute have developed first tool to measure the communication experiences of family members of hospi...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A wearable patch that delivers small amounts of peanut protein through the skin shows promise for treating children and young adults with peanut allergy, with g...

News The technique would be used in a recording method known as patch-clamping, in which a tiny liquid-filled glass pipette is connected to individual neurons. Contributed Author: Georgia Tech Topics: Neurology

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Studying brain tissue from deceased donors, Johns Hopkins scientists have found common groups of genes disrupted among people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. The common...

(Medical University of South Carolina) New research sheds light on what might be going wrong in the regulation of genes that govern the brain's connectivity, leading to autism and schizophrenia. Identifying the major pla...

(Georgia State University) Having comfortable living conditions and independence from their adult children can help elderly Chinese immigrants find a sense of home and life satisfaction in the United States, but the inab...