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People addicted to food could be treated with a regular narcolepsy drug, reports a recent study. Modafinil, a drug used in treating impulsiveness in ADHD and schizophrenia, might help reduce the impulsiveness in food add...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Something as seemingly harmless as a heartburn pill could lead cancer patients to take a turn for the worse. A University of Alberta study published in the journal ...

Thousands of men who suffered from the side effects of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal prepare to file a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson. The drug cause boys and men to grow breasts.

(Colorado State University) For those suffering depression or anxiety, using cannabis for relief may not be the long-term answer. That's according to new research from a team at Colorado State University. Researchers led...

(University of California - San Diego) In recent years, researchers have identified specific gene mutations linked to gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), which primarily occur in the stomach or small intestine, but 1...

(Monell Chemical Senses Center) Does eating good-tasting food make you gain weight? Despite the common perception that good-tasting food is unhealthy and causes obesity, new research from the Monell Center using a mouse ...

A study published in The BMJ analyzed the reason why only some people detect the unpleasant smell of urine in people who eat asparagus. It seems the causes of the phenomenon are related to several genetic variations.

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) New research finds that Zika-linked abnormalities that occur in human fetuses are more extensive -- and severe -- than previously thought, with 46 percent of 125 p...

(Buck Institute for Research on Aging) The human microbiome appears to play a significant role in health and disease, but the mechanisms of how it does so is not well understood. Researchers at the Buck Institute have us...

(Babraham Institute) Researchers have discovered new insights into how one of the two X-chromosomes is silenced during the development of female human embryos and also in lab-grown stem cells. X-chromosome silencing is e...

(University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) Rapid population decline among vertebrate species began at the end of the 19th century when industrialization was at its peak, according to researchers at the Univer...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Dr. Irmela Jeremias from Helmholtz Zentrum München and her colleagues have succeeded in finding a small population of inactive leukemia cell...

(Kobe University) A Kobe University research team has pinpointed the mechanism underlying astrocyte-mediated restoration of brain tissue after an injury. This could lead to new treatments that encourage regeneration by l...

News Many of these devices are already being integrated into a growing Big Data digital health and marketing ecosystem. Contributed Author: American University Topics: Home Healthcare

News The researchers say the technique is as accurate as using needles in a biopsy, with the ultrasound able to give them information about specific parts of a tumour. Contributed Author: University of Alberta Faculty of...

News For the first time, the researchers present a CVD (chemical vapor deposition) method to produce biodegradable polymers. Contributed Author: Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie (KIT) Topics: Implantables

News Dr. Goodrich, Dr. Tepper and a team of expert surgical and medical providers at CHAM spent countless hours preparing for each of the four stages of the separation, using virtual planning and 3D printing technologies...

WHO is saddened by the death of Dr Halfdan T. Mahler on XX December 2016. Dr Mahler served as Director-General of WHO from 1973-1988.

(RAND Corporation) Infants in families who participated in an intensive new parent home visiting program involving both nurses and lay educators used significantly less medical services during the first year of life, acc...

Britain's fertility regulator has approved to license three-parent baby fertility treatment. Babies conceived through mitochondrial transfer could be born as early as next year.

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News A University of Rochester Medical Center study shows that when tumors are treated with radiotherapy, the benefits can be hijacked by the treatment's counteraction to trigger inflammation and dampen the body's immune...