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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked a multistate outbreak to contact with guinea pigs. Owners of the pet rodents are advised to follow certain rules to keep themselves safe from the disease.

Doctors in Quebec are protesting their own pay raises negotiated by their unions. They argue that other healthcare professionals are struggling and that the money should be used elsewhere it is needed.

(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) The Mekong River traverses six Southeast Asian countries and supports the livelihoods of millions of people. New efforts to provide hy...

America's opioid crisis is worsening at a point where health officials are encouraged to prescribe them only as a last resort. Well, it turns out painkillers may just be enough.

(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) A new study published in Biological Psychiatry has linked exposure to residential air pollution during fetal life with brain abnormalities that may contribute to impaire...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Investing in diminishing socioeconomic status inequalities and in preventing violent events during childhood may improve the mental health of youths from low socioe...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) -- preparations of a type of antibody designed to bind to a single target -- have shown promise in the fight against cancer and aut...

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine -- a nonprofit with 12,000 doctor members -- has released the third edition of its Nutrition Guide for Clinicians as an ap...

(University of California - San Diego) Through a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II clinical trial, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that small doses of NGM28...

(George Mason University) A study by George Mason University Researchers found that women who have given birth have shorter telomeres than those who haven't. Telomeres are the end caps of DNA on our chromosomes, which he...

(American Geriatrics Society) Food insecurity occurs when people lack access to food or go hungry due to poverty or other challenges. It remains a serious problem for many older adults. Recently, a research team from the...

(Sainsbury Wellcome Centre) A new study, published today in Science, explores the consequences of distorting the shape of the enclosing box on cognitive maps of space. The results detail how our cognitive maps adapt to c...

(University of Basel) A newly-discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin (EPO) in the blood. This mutation causes a messenger RNA (mRNA) that is not normally involved in t...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have developed a new method to measure social networks of survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer in order to cultivate the ...

(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) The Diversity Award recognizes members of the Academy who have distinguished themselves through their outstanding commitment to making orthopaedics more representative of, and a...

(Mayo Clinic) Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health today unveiled results from early use of the Watson for Clinical Trial Matching, an IBM cognitive computing system. Use of this system in the Mayo Clinic oncology practice ...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) A discovery sheds light on how cancerous cells differ from healthy ones, and could lead to the development of new strategies for therapeutic intervention for diffic...

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Researchers report discovery of a strong predictive biomarker for bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and they show a role for the biomarker in the pathogenesis of this neonatal lung disease...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion protein mutations. To determine whether three of the unstudied m...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Researchers have shown that a wide variety of synthetic antisense oligonucleotides with different chemical modifications can activate the frataxin gene, which contains a ...

(University of Maryland School of Medicine) A new study has found that although radiology research by women has increased significantly over the past five decades, the rate of this increase has leveled off since 2000.

(Washington University School of Medicine) Sepsis causes about 250,000 deaths annually in the United States. Standard treatment involves high doses of antibiotics. Even if people survive the initial onslaught , they can ...