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Netflix is awesome, but, despite what we may wish, sleep is still a necessary part of life. Luckily, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine has some advice to help you meet your entertainment and sleep needs.

The FDA requested Endo Pharmaceuticals to voluntary remove its pain management drug Opana ER. The agency requested the drug's withdrawal from the market for fear of opioid abuse.

A new study shows that feeding infants one egg daily can improve the child's nutrition and reduce stunted growth. Parents can introduce egg to babies at 6 months.

A child from Texas is said to have died from 'dry drowning' days after his last swimming activity. Amid the pending autopsy report, the CDC and other doctors are avoiding the usage of terms such as 'dry drowning.'

The FDA announced a recall on birth control pills with a packaging error. Taking the pills out of order could render the pills ineffective and lead to unplanned pregnancies.

The suspected cholera cases in Yemen reached 101,820, including more than 700 deaths. UNICEF stated that the country's children were the worst hit and accounted for 46 percent of the cases.

Coca-Cola is releasing the company's newest diet soda in Australia on June 16, but is it really any different? Find out more about the new sugarless coke option.

(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science) An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis study finds differing risk for binge drinking based on race, income and age. African-Americans ar...

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Mice born into an oxygen-rich environment respond worse to the flu once fully grown due to an absence of certain lung cells, a discovery that provides a potential explanation for ...

(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Adult male farmers in Malaysia are more than twice as likely to contract Plasmodium knowlesi malaria -- an infection usually found only in monkeys -- than other people in th...

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Rockefeller University, The City University of New York Graduate School of Publi...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Research is essential to determining how best to screen pregnant women for opioid use disorder, to treat pregnant women who have the d...

(Wiley) Among older patients with diabetes, those who are overweight or obese may have a lower risk of dying prematurely than their normal weight counterparts. The finding comes from a recent analysis of published studie...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study of gene transfer using adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene delivery into skeletal muscle of rhesus macaques showed that oral prednisone reduced immune res...

(University of California - San Diego) Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles is a common and critical component in successfully treating patients with brain tumors but it is also associated with significant ...

(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Most women who undergo a cesarean childbirth are prescribed more opioid (narcotic) pain medications than needed upon release from the hospital, a Vanderbilt University Medical Cente...

(Scripps Health) Low-income Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels that equaled those resulting from some glucose-lo...

(University of Iowa) A new study from the University of Iowa shows that a pair of common chemicals that manufacturers use to make plastic food containers, water bottles, and other consumer products do not contribute to o...

(University of Utah Health) Scientists have found up to 30 percent of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL patients have Philadelphia chromosome, where two segments of chromosomes have aberrantly fused together. Adu...

(Duke-NUS Medical School) A new study, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, has shown that selling rewards programmes to participants entering a weight loss programme is a low cost strategy to increase b...

(ITMO University) Scientists from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg and Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found a way to recover a protein structure after its chemical denaturation. The method is based on electrostat...

(University at Buffalo) Abortion fund recipients who have to travel out of state for an abortion travel roughly 10 times farther for their procedures than patients able to get care in their homes states.