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The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on vaccine provision for yellow fever has provided 1.4 million vaccine doses for an immunization campaign that starts on Saturday (2 December) to help control an ongoing yellow ...

Robert Trostle sued Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh, claiming that he contracted an eye-eating parasite from the Raging Rapids ride. Trostle is still not cured even after a painful surgery that tried to scrape the parasite ...

Compared to the control participants, the MRS results of the smartphone and internet-addicted young participants showed chemical imbalance in their brains. Fortunately, their brain chemistries returned back to normal aft...

(University of Bristol) The harmful effects of being overweight have been underestimated, according to a new study that analysed body mass index (BMI), health and mortality data in around 60,000 parents and their childre...

(Umea University) Jawbone loss caused by periodontitis predates the onset of rheumatoid arthritis. This according to research from Umeå University in Sweden presented in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology. The researc...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a streamlined method and accompanying efficiency 'rules' for introducing new DNA sequences into cells after using the gene-cutting tool known as CRISPR. Th...

(University of Colorado at Boulder) Boulder researchers are embarking on a new project to study the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's by using a new laser technique to measure neurons firing deep...

(University of Liverpool) The University of Liverpool's Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology has been honoured with a Queen's Anniversary Prize -- one of the most prestigious awards in higher education -- in...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Differences in the genes expressed in non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) from some African-Americans and European-Americans suggest that there are racial differences in the bi...

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) In research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, doctors at UCLA Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that patients could benefit if they...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The purposes of this study were to identify the elements characterizing mental health disorders, especially in terms of depression, stress, and substance abuse, and to identify the treatment ...

(Wolters Kluwer Health) Less than one-third of patients with glaucoma talk to their doctor about the costs of medications needed to control their disease, reports a study in the December issue of Optometry and Vision Sci...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) A team at CSHL reports success in a small-scale test of a new analytical method to improve the early detection of potentially lethal prostate cancer. Based on diagnostic biopsy samples, th...

(American Association for Cancer Research) An analysis of bacteria present in the mouth showed that some types of bacteria that lead to periodontal disease were associated with higher risk of esophageal cancer.

(University of Nevada, Las Vegas) UNLV research finds that consuming encapsulated placentas has little to no effect on postpartum mood and maternal bonding; detectable changes shown in hormones.

(European Association for the Study of the Liver) The International Liver Congress™ (ILC) is the annual EASL meeting, and the flagship event in EASL's educational calendar. Every year in April, scientific and medical e...

(NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine) Researchers at NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center report that at least three kinds of bacteria in the mouths of Americans may heighten or lower their risk of devel...

(Sanford-Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), has received a four-year, $792,000 Research Scholar Gr...

(St. Michael's Hospital) The Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada announced today a research team from St. Michael's Hospital has received $1.5 million to study the sources of HIV...

(University of California - San Diego) The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) unanimously approved yesterday two grants worth a total of almost $8 millio...

(Mayo Clinic) A new article in Mayo Clinic Proceedings reviews options for women going through genitourinary syndrome of menopause -- an encompassing term for vaginal dryness, itching, dyspareunia and urinary tract infec...

(Penn State) A later school start time could mean teens are more likely to get adequate amounts of sleep, according to Penn State researchers.