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CDC warns about increasing reports of parasite infection from pools and water parks. The 2016 Crypto outbreaks more than doubled the number of reported cases in 2014.

The saga of artificial ingredients in fast food continues. Some months ago, McDonald's vanilla ice cream has started to get rid of artificial preservatives, colors, and flavors in a bid for healthier offerings.

Consumer Reports conducted a test that revealed that all sunscreen lotions were not labeled with the correct SPF rating. They also found 15 products they recommended for use, which they claimed offered the best protectio...

A new study indicated that maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet will reduce colon cancer death risk. The researchers also emphasized the importance of medical treatment for colon cancer.

DRC's latest Ebola outbreak poses a major challenge to the World Health Organization. Should the government approve, WHO hopes to bring the Ebola vaccine to the affected region within one week.

A woman from Sacramento has spent the last three weeks in the ICU after consuming contaminated nacho cheese from a gas station. What is botulism, and can it cause an outbreak?

(University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) Physicians, parents and coaches should be cautious when considering treating injured young athletes with platelet rich plasma (PRP), stem cells or other types of regenerati...

(University of Bonn) A study led by the University of Bonn opens a new perspective with regard to the development of dementia. The scientists blocked the breakdown of a certain fat molecule in the mouse brain. As a resul...

(Wiley) In a recent study, an educational session helped alleviate distress equally in both patients with prostate cancer and their partners.

(NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) A project applying the science of epigenetics to demonstrate the health dangers of hookah smoke won a first-place Addiction Science Award at the 2017 Intel International Science and...

(University of Plymouth) A research team from the University of Plymouth, University of Southampton and the Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center, Vari, Greece, have studied two structurally-similar prote...

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Georgetown University today announces it has exclusively licensed worldwide intellectual property (IP) rights to develop and commercialize uses of tyrosine kinase (TK) inhibitors fo...

(University of Exeter) A hay fever map of Britain -- with the first ever guide to the location of plants in the UK that can trigger the allergy -- has been produced to help sufferers cope, and warn them which 'hotspots' ...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Otherwise healthy young people with high systolic blood pressure over 140 are at greater risk for future artery stiffening linked to an increased risk of stroke as well as possible damage...

(Medical University of South Carolina) Chronic pancreatitis is an increasingly common condition that is extremely painful and sometimes fatal. Strategies for managing chronic pancreatitis are changing rapidly, giving hea...

(University of Basel) Athletes often have to compete late in the evening, when they are no longer able to perform at their best. As reported in the journal Frontiers in Physiology, however, researchers from the Universit...

(Uppsala University) Researchers from Uppsala University have studied beta cells of type-2 diabetic donors, and find that a mislocalized calcium channel contributes to the failed insulin secretion associated with the dis...

(Colorado State University) A new study led by Colorado State University found that Aedes aegypti, the primary mosquito that carries Zika virus, might also transmit chikungunya and dengue viruses with one bite.

(European Society of Cardiology) Nearly one-quarter of patients with a mechanical heart valve say it disturbs their sleep, according to research presented today at EuroHeartCare 2017.

(Kazan Federal University) Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic debilitating inflammatory disease targeting the brain. The pathogenesis of MS remains largely unknown. It is believed that brain tissue damage is due to imm...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) MicroRNAs are interesting target structures for new therapeutic agents. They can be blocked through synthetic antimiRs. However, to date it was not possible to use these only locally. Resear...

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Culinary treatments (boiling, microwaving, grilling, and deep frying) influence on proximate composition and antioxidant capacity of most cultivated mushrooms world...