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A strain of bacteria that commonly lives on the human skin produces 6-HAP that can kill cancer cells without harming other cells. About 20 percent of healthy humans have 6-HAP-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis.

News Improving the trafficking of cellular proteins in brain cells holds possibilities for new treatments and even prevention for Alzheimer's disease, results of a new study suggest ... Contributed Author: University of ...

News The study, which is part of the research into heart tissue regeneration, revealed ... Contributed Author: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Topics: Cardiovascular

A new study discovered that people on a gluten-free diet were less susceptible to nerve pain compared to people on a different diet. Gluten is the protein found in wheat, barley, and rye.

A team of researchers just challenged the very concept of Obesity Paradox. According to their study, overweight or obese people don't actually live longer lives -- they're just diagnosed with heart disease earlier, that'...

(Medical Research Council) A new study has found a blood test for cancer DNA could predict if a woman is responding to the breast cancer drug palbociclib, months earlier than current tests. Scientists from The Institute ...

(American College of Cardiology) When it comes to coping with chronic angina -- chest pain or pressure that comes on when the heart isn't getting enough oxygen, usually during physical activity -- a positive outlook may ...

(Wildlife Conservation Society) A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Foundations of Success (FOS) finds that an ecotourism strategy based on 'direct payments,' where local people are compensated for...

(Lehigh University) Students learning English as a second language who also have special needs are more likely to fall between the cracks of elementary school education, finds researcher Sara Kangas of Lehigh University ...

(University of Leicester) Evidence suggests South Asian people are less likely to require a pacemaker for abnormally low heart rate than white people of European origin.

(Springer) A major journal focusing on scientific and clinical research in all aspects of geriatric medicine has now become part of the extensive medicine and public health portfolio at Springer. European Geriatric Medic...

(Rutgers University) Nasal distortions in selfies taken at close range are prompting people to seek out surgeons to make their noses smaller. Such was the experience of Rutgers facial plastic surgeon Boris Paskhover, who...

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) If the sense of smell disappears, this can indicate a disease such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. However, unlike previously assumed, general degenerations in the nervous sy...

(German Center for Infection Research) Molecular diagnostic tests for the Zika virus in Brazil are not always reliable.

(American College of Cardiology) An analysis of medical-record data from more than 17.5 million patients found that people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at elevated risk for a heart attack, regardless of whet...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins researchers have invented a new class of cancer immunotherapy drugs that are more effective at harnessing the power of the immune system to fight cancer. This new approach, which wa...

(Montana State University) Rebecca Hochstein, who earned her doctorate in MSU's Department of Microbiology and Immunology in 2015, is lead author of a study that explains how a lemon-shaped virus assembles itself and how...

(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) According to a new study in the journal Vaccine, researchers monitored daily immunization rate reports during the detected outbreak and discovered a significant i...

(Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care) When you want to remember a phone number, you likely repeat the digits to yourself again and again. We unknowingly do something similar with our eyes to help us recall what we see and...

(University of British Columbia) Depictions of race and skin tone in anatomy textbooks widely used in North American medical schools could be contributing to racial bias in medical treatment, new research suggests.

(RAND Corporation) The Department of Veterans Affairs has been expanding a program to allow veterans to use their health benefits in the community rather than relying upon the VA health system. However, a new study finds...