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You have a bit of your mother in you, literally. When scientists performed biopsies of young adults' organs, they've found maternal cells embedded in hearts, kidneys, and liver. This phenomenon, called microchimerism, is...

Pregnancy-related death rates have doubled in Texas, shows a 2016 study. However, Texas lawmakers failed to vote on a number of measures that could have helped curb the state's increased maternal mortality rate.

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News To test the device's effects on stress, researchers had study participants prepare a speech for public performance ... Contributed Author: Brook Hays, UPI Topics: Wearables

News The new chip is capable of fractionating DNA fragments within just a few minutes ... Contributed Author: University of Twente Topics: STEM

As Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr Osotimehin was a champion of health for all, but especially for women and adolescent girls.

Can you swim after getting a tattoo? Here's the answer plus safe tattoo care and healing tips, following the case of a 31-year-old man who died after contracting flesh-eating bacteria upon swimming with his new body art.

(UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center) UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers uncovered differences in the way black and white men rated prostate cancer treatment-related factors like recovery time ...

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Most bird chicks need parental care to survive. In biparental species the chicks have greater chances of success if both parents participate in this task, especiall...

(American Society of Clinical Oncology) In an early clinical trial, 33 out of 35 (94 percent) patients had clinical remission of multiple myeloma upon receiving a new type of immunotherapy -- chimeric antigen receptor (C...

(Penn State) The American Academy of Pediatrics

(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) While the proportion of adults with severe obesity using prescription opioids initially declines in the months after bariatric surgery, it increases within a matt...

(ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences) Since 2014, the European Project- BabyLux- has had the goal of reducing the risk of brain lesions in extremely preterm babies and eventually decreasing the number of children wit...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Worldwide phase II clinical trial results presented ASCO 2017 show the promise of the second-generation drug dasatinib against pediatric CML. Of 113 pediatric patients stu...

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Medical emergencies cause a high number of vehicle crashes. University of Michigan researchers have teamed up with Toyota to examine whether new vehicle technology could predi...

(University of Missouri-Columbia) Overconsumption of a Western diet high in fats and refined sugars has contributed to a global increase in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Obese and diabetic premenopausal women are more at ...

(American Society of Clinical Oncology) Malignant pleural mesothelioma or MPM is a rare cancer, but its incidence has been rising. This cancer is usually associated with asbestos exposure, and patients have a median life...

(Wiley) New comprehensive guidance for the diagnosis and management of peanut and tree nut allergy has been developed, which for the first time brings together the latest research and expert views into a single robustly ...

(North Carolina State University) Forensic anthropology researchers have developed a technique that can provide an approximate age for juveniles and young people based on an X-ray of the frontal sinus region of the skull...

(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Offering comprehensive health insurance plans with low deductibles and co-pay in exchange for higher annual premiums seems like a good value for the risk av...