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Researchers find motor delays among Chinese infants who were prenatally exposed to the basic insecticide chemicals used to control the spread of Zika virus-carrying mosquitoes.

A new study suggests that regular late night dinners are dangerous for the body. Delaying meals has a bad effect on metabolism and could increase health risks.

Amid the opioid epidemic, the FDA requested for a voluntary removal of an injectable prescription opioid painkiller. Just how exactly does a drug go from painkiller to an addictive drug?

(The JAMA Network Journals) Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes who are not treated with insulin did not improve glycemic control or health-related quality of life after one year in a...

(University of North Carolina Health Care) In a landmark study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, UNC School of Medicine researchers have shown that blood glucose testing does not offer a significant advantage in blood...

(Massachusetts General Hospital) Interim results from a FDA-approved clinical trial testing the generic vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes demonstrate a potential new mechanism by which...

(Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute) The results of the 'terminology consensus project' led by the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute's (CHEO RI) Sedentary Behaviour Research...

A new study determined whether obesity was linked to chemical substitutes that were found in food containers. The researchers observed whether the BPS and BPF chemical combination was linked to obesity.