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A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed with Gorham-Stout disease, a rare condition that is also known as 'vanishing bone disease.' Doctors could not do anything, as the disease claimed the woman's shoulder and arm.

News A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis looked deep within collagen fibers to see how the body forms new bone and teeth, seeking insights into faster bone healing and new biomaterials... Topics: Re...

A new cause of the development of food allergies in children has been found. Using baby wipes can alter the way that children's skin absorbency works leading to food allergies.

Ten individuals including responding firefighters and two dogs got sick after a common coral released potentially deadly toxins. The incident happened overnight after the fish tank was cleaned out.

To combat the opioid epidemic, the Surgeon General calls on the public to carry naloxone and to know how to administer it. This is the first surgeon general advisory in 13 years.

Contrary to common belief, pasta doesn't make you gain weight and can even help lose weight. However, eating pasta all the time does not necessarily do the trick, and nutritionists explain why.

(American Thoracic Society) A new blood test has been found to more accurately predict the development of tuberculosis up to two years before its onset in people living with someone with active TB, according to research ...

(EMBO) Alzheimer's disease is thought to begin long before patients show typical symptoms like memory loss. Scientists have now developed a blood test for Alzheimer's disease and found that it can detect early indicators...

(American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy) A new guideline by the ASGE Standards of Practice Committee offers evidence-based recommendations and clinical guidelines addressing key issues related to Endoscopic Erad...

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) A positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent could show, ahead of time, whether a specific treatment is likely to be effective for major depressive disorder (MDD)...

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) A KAIST team presented a highly customized neural stimulation method. The research team developed a technology that can print the heat pattern on a micron ...

(Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund) Seven research projects have been awarded grants totaling £1.1 million by the UK medical research charity, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund (PCRF). The grants bring the charity's total r...

(McMaster University) Is that meat still good? Are you sure? McMaster researchers have developed a test to bring certainty to the delicate but critical question of whether meat and other foods are safe to eat or need to ...

(Oregon Health & Science University) Accurately detecting a rare, but devastating cause of blindness in premature babies can be done as effectively with telemedicine as with traditional, in-person eye exams, a study publ...

(Michigan State University) A new Michigan State University study is the first to find that a particular type of lipid, or fat, thought to only exist in the skin, now lives in your eye and might play a major role in dete...

(University of Minnesota) The University of Minnesota's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) received more than $42 million in renewed National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding through the National Cente...

(Kessler Foundation) 'For the 24th consecutive month, we are seeing improvement in the employment-to-population ratio for people with disabilities, commented John O'Neill, PhD, director of employment and disability resea...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against various influenza virus strai...

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm report on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics that may be effective at treating drug-resistant infections.

(Northwestern University) Infant and childhood food allergy has now been linked to a mix of environmental and genetic factors that must coexist to trigger the allergy, reports a new study. Those factors include genetics ...

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Georgia have described how the protein that allows strep...

(University of Sao Paulo Scientific Outreach Unit) Researchers from the School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto (FMRP), at the University of São Paulo (USP), have developed indices that provide information about the progn...