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Brothers Jadon and Anias McDonald are on a pace for the fastest recovery for craniopagus surgery. The formerly conjoined twins are set to be moved to a rehab facility six weeks after the procedure that separated their he...

A proposed phone app identifies mosquitoes by the sounds they make while flying. Meanwhile, a new solution from Florida involves releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in order to combat the Zika virus spread.

AstraZeneca will resume patient enrollment in two of its trial programs for neck and head cancers. The FDA lifted the partial hold, which occurred after a series of patients suffered from bleeding as a side effect of the...

Sugar substitutes like aspartame do not help in making you lose weight, reports a recent study. Worse, aspartame could promote weight gain and elevate blood pressure, caution researchers.

Palliative care has been found to improve quality of life and survival rates and lessen symptoms for patients with serious illness. Researchers are pushing to have palliative care offered as a standard health care practi...

(D'Or Institute for Research and Education) One of the most serious complications of diabetes, heart arrhythmias, is now on its way to be prevented and combated. Heart problems are responsible for 65 percent of the death...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) A team of researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with scientists from the University of North Carolina, have discovered the mechanism by which C10, a human antibody previously ...

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Researchers have identified a mechanism by which cells undergo reprogramming in live mice, a phenomenon that had previously been poorly understood.

(University Health Network) A team of researchers from the iDAPT labs at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network are dedicated to keeping Canadians safer this winter by offering evidence-based ratings ...

(King's College London) New research highlighted today in Nature Reviews Endocrinology has discovered the essential role that the receptor FFAR2 plays in the success of fermentable carbohydrates -- found in foods such as...

A consumer watchdog group warned that some toys that have already been recalled are still for sale online. What should shoppers do to ensure they are buying safe toys this holiday season?