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Study finds an association between daily use of touchscreen devices and problems with infants' sleeping pattern. Findings add to current research about both the negative and positive impacts of touchscreen device usage a...

The FBI arrested a Michigan doctor on charges of having performed female genital mutilations. The doctor performed the FGM on two 7-year-old girls from Minnesota.

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) All-terrain vehicle-related injuries remain a large public health problem in this country, with children more adversely affected than adults. According to researchers at Wake Forest B...

(New York Institute of Technology) Researchers at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) may have just discovered a potential new method to diagnose and monitor atherosclerosis: the radial artery.

(American Association for Cancer Research) A vaccine targeting cytomegalovirus (CMV) antigen pp65, combined with high-dose chemotherapy (temozolomide), improved both progression-free survival and overall survival for a s...

(Kyoto University) Gambling addiction is a mental disorder characterized by excessive risk-taking despite negative results. Scientific studies using functional MRI have previously shown that addicts have altered activity...

(Duke University Medical Center) A phase one study of 11 patients with glioblastoma who received injections of an investigational vaccine therapy and an approved chemotherapy showed the combination to be well tolerated w...

(Florida Museum of Natural History) A Florida Museum of Natural History study provides new insights into the complex, shared history between blood-sucking lice and the vitamin-producing bacterial sidekicks that enable th...

(Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt geneticists have developed an effective method for identifying the plant genes that produce the chemical ammunition plants use to protect themselves from predation and is a natural sour...

(University of Minnesota) A team of biomedical engineering researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has created a revolutionary 3-D-bioprinted patch that can help heal scarred heart tissue after a heart attack. T...

(University of Chicago Medical Center) People living in areas that restrict trans fats in foods had fewer hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke compared to residents in areas without restrictions, according to a n...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) In the largest-known study on bone metastases in thyroid cancer, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center found that patients with follicular and ...

(Bentham Science Publishers) Diabetes mellitus (DM) is probably one of the oldest known diseases and the incidence has been increasing steadily all over the world. The etiopathology is very complex and is closely related...

(Entomological Society of America) In a recent test of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Brazil, researchers found fragments of Zika virus RNA, raising concerns that it may be carried by species other than Zika's known...

(Hiroshima University) People who possess a greater understanding of finance are less likely to fret about life in their twilight years. They are also able to face off later-life's dilemmas with ease.As the first study t...

(NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes are increasing among youth in the United States, according to a report, Incidence Trends o...

(American Academy of Sleep Medicine) A new position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) asserts that the school day should begin at 8:30 a.m. or later for middle school and high school students.

Texas reported a massive surge in mumps cases which are at a two-decade high. The health department has issued an advisory to healthcare providers.

The trans fat ban in public food venues has made New Yorkers healthier, reducing heart attack and stroke rates by more than 6 percent. Next year, the FDA plans to eliminate partially hydrogenated oils from baked and frie...

Target recalled more than half a million Easter toys that, once ingested, can expand in a child's stomach and may not even show up on X-ray. Here are the products affected by the recall.