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The Fourth of July fireworks can cause panic attacks to veterans with PTSD. Here's what former combatants, their families and organizations do to avoid psychological stress on Independence Day.

The man behind the Ice Bucket Challenge, 32-year-old Pete Frates, is now back in the hospital for the very condition he helped raised awareness for. Learn how he has changed research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS...

Participants in a new study who took proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) emerged with a 25 percent higher risk of death from heartburn drugs. Learn more about the potential dangers of this class of heartburn medications.

A 31-year-old woman who had received heart transplant surgery died after giving birth to her daughter. She had developed complications hours after the delivery.

(Duke-NUS Medical School) Including investigators from all three medical schools in Singapore, as well as local public health institutions, the Diabetes studY in Nephropathy And other Microvascular cOmplications, also kn...

(Society for Experimental Biology) You might think that plants grow according to how much nutrition, water and sunlight they are exposed to, but new research by Dr. Nick Pullen and a team from the John Innes Centre, UK s...

(University of Oxford) Sequencing the genome of the sand rat, a desert rodent susceptible to nutritionally induced diabetes, revealed an unusual chromosome region skewed toward G and C nucleotides. This region includes t...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The design of tailored peptide-polymer conjugates as drug-specific formulation additives offers access to next generation precision additives that can render problematic small organic drugs w...

(European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) Spots resulting from too much sun exposure and other effects of dysfunctional melanin production may become a thing of the past. Scientists have solved the structure of one of th...

(BioMed Central) Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a simple way to help reduce malaria transmission, according to a new study published in the open access Malaria Journal. Remov...

(University of Lincoln) A new book by leading sleep scientists debunks 40 popular and persistent myths on how to get a good night's sleep - from the efficacy of bed socks to the potentially negative consequences of stick...

(University of Sussex) A new University of Sussex study has revealed that grunts produced by players during tennis matches they lost were higher in voice pitch than during the matches they won.

(IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) Administration of the amino acid D-serine, a dietary supplement, contributes to the improvement of the cognitive and motor capacity of a patient with a mutation that affe...

(University of Oxford) Ca2+ entry into vascular smooth muscle activates Ca2+ signaling in the endothelium to protect tissue blood flow.

(Lund University) The common and highly resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a fatal threat to weakened and ill patients. A new study from Lund University in Sweden now shows that a combination treatment using t...

(University of Plymouth) A consortium of scientists from Ingenza Ltd., the National Physical Laboratory, and the University of Plymouth has received funding of £933,000 from Innovate UK to develop a design and manufactu...

A Chinese health vlogger was supposed to demonstrate the health benefits of the aloe vera plant on live stream. Unfortunately, she was poisoned because she used the wrong plant, the Agave americana.