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The World Health Organization identified Disease X as a global threat. A deadly epidemic caused by the still unknown pathogen may emerge from a variety of sources and may strike anytime.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified a cluster of deadly disease among dental personnel and dentists. Called as the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, the disease leads to scarring of the lung.

Daylight saving time is bad for your health, a study has found. The time change can cause symptoms of anxiety, depression, and heart attacks. Here's everything you need to know.

More than 66 percent of people in relationships say that their partners snore, a new study has found. A sleep expert shares the number reason why people snore and tips to stop snoring, as it's cause for people to sleep i...

The immune system of older people who exercise regularly are similar to young people's. That's according to a new study that questions the notion that aging inevitably makes us frail.

Last June, an employee of the Meramec State Park died after contracting the Bourbon virus infection. Months later, Missouri lawmakers are threatening budget cuts to the state's agency for refusing to release information ...

(Intermountain Medical Center) Patients who undergo a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR -- a minimally-invasive surgical procedure that repairs a damaged heart valve -- experienced a significant increase in...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) New findings, presented today at the American College of Cardiology, provide long-term information about survival, stroke rates and durability of a novel centrifugal-flow pump compared with...

(Institut Pasteur) A new study led by scientists from the University of Cambridge, the Institut Pasteur, Paris Diderot University, the CNRS and the genetics company 23andMe suggests that our empathy is not just a result ...

(The Physiological Society) New research published today helps explain why people experience muscle loss in old age, increasing the prospects of reversing the condition in the future.

(University of Cambridge) A new study published today suggests that how empathic we are is not just a result of our upbringing and experience but also partly a result of our genes.

(University of Kentucky) Data presented from a Late-Breaking Clinical Trial at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session Data demonstrated the effectiveness of beta blockers or ACE inhibitors to...

(University of Cambridge) Over a half of stroke patients require a degree of help with taking medicine and a sizeable minority say they do not receive as much assistance as they need, according a study published today in...

Stress has been recently found to be transmittable and its effects are destructive to people on the receiving end. In the long term, it results in severe mental illnesses in both the source and the other person.