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Smoking has many negative health effects that range from cancer to death, now there's another that smokers have to look out for. Smoking can lead to people becoming deaf.

News A new study shows that healthy people who take attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs experience a surge in the neurotransmitter glutamate in key parts of the brain. And that increase in glutamate is ...

News Alzheimer's disease has gained much attention in recent years as potentially debilitating to many elderly people and adversely affecting impacting the families and caregivers of those with the deadly disease. But ac...

A new research sheds some light on why certain people seem to have more empathy than others. Could it be because of differences in genetics?

News Researchers at the Endocrine Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) reported in the latest edition of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) that they were able to safely and effectively...

News A team at the University of Toronto's Medicine by Design has combined the latest genomic technology with machine learning in a new study that sheds light on brain stem cells, providing insights that could one day he...

News In a study conducted in rural India, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers working in collaboration with Bal Umang Drishya Sanstha (BUDS), a nonprofit Indian organization focused on child health, have found that mobile...

Nectome, a new startup is launching with the idea of giving people a chance to backup their mind. Problems with the process arise when it's revealed that people have to die before it can be accomplished.

American is spending more on health care than any other high-income countries, a new analysis has revealed. The reason? Costly branded medicine and expensive diagnostic procedures, among other things.

After seven years of conflict in Syria, WHO has renewed its call for the protection of health workers and for immediate access to besieged populations. Attacks on the health sector have continued at an alarming level in ...

(University of Waterloo) Despite widespread availability of morning meal programs, a large number of Canadian students are still skipping breakfast, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.

(American Chemical Society) Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals can cause health effects, such as reduced fertility and increased incidences of obesity and diabetes. Two decades ago, Congress directed the US Envir...

(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) Physician-researchers from the Cardiac Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) presented new findings on pediatric cardiovascular disease at the American College of Card...

(University of Michigan) The emotional and sexual abuse that some children endure can lead them to commit crimes later in life.

(Oregon Health & Science University) A research team from Oregon Health & Science University, led by Joe Gray, Ph.D. and Jim Korkola, Ph.D. discover a tumor's 'microenvironment' plays a critical role in how HER2 positive...

(Brown University) The findings by Brown University scientists offer clues about how misused drugs affect healthy brains and hint at an undiscovered link between glutamate and mood.

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) In a study conducted in rural India, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers working in collaboration with Bal Umang Drishya Sanstha (BUDS), a nonprofit Indian organization focused on child health, ha...

(American Society of Anesthesiologists) An innovative use for a known drug is showing promise as an effective treatment for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), suggests a study published today in the Onl...

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) An international research consortium led by Dr Jordi Surrallés, director of the Genetics Service at the Hospital de Sant Pau and professor of Genetics at the UAB, and by Dr Miquel Àn...

(Goethe University Frankfurt) Anthony Cerami and David Wallach have -- in their own individual way and independently of one other -- decoded the significance of TNF, helping make the neutralization of TNF one of the majo...

(Wiley) New research highlights a more accurate way to screen for preeclampsia in pregnant women than currently recommended methods.

(American Geriatrics Society) Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) expressed concern over recent proposals by the Trump Administration to increase health insurance costs for older adults purchasing coverage o...