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(Loyola University Health System) A Loyola Medicine study has found that 15.4 percent of patients who take so-called 'drug holidays' from osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates experienced bone fractures. During a six...

Hay fever can easily be triggered by the amount of pollen that one is exposed. Here are effective ways to avoid experiencing severe symptoms such as a runny nose and swelling around the eyes.

A seventeen year-old boy from Maine was attacked by a bobcat and is reportedly being treated for rabies. The young boy and his father were both attacked by the wild animal after it entered their backyard.

A lot of high schoolers are Juuling, and they can't stop. The addictive habit, originally meant for adults who want to quit smoking, represents a growing problem among America's adolescents.

A viral video shows just what can happen to the lungs of a smoker. The charcoal-colored lungs are larger but less elastic and deflates quickly compared to the healthy lungs.

Someone has now died because of the E.coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. 25 states are now affected, and the CDC confirms cases have grown to 121, 52 of which required hospitalization.

An NIH clinical trial showed positive results in reducing symptoms of eczema by applying good bacteria in the affected skin areas. The study involved adult and pediatric participants, who showed no side effects and adver...

Lone star ticks can cause meat allergy or alpha-gal syndrome that trigger severe allergic reactions. Experts said there are at least 3,000 cases of the alpha-gal syndrome in the country due to lone star tick bites.

A woman's ovarian tumor grew to almost 100 centimeters in just two months, occupying her entire abdomen. Doctors at a Connecticut hospital worked together to perform a lifesaving surgery.

(Cardiff University) The superior size and complexity of the human brain compared to other mammals may actually originate from fewer initial starting materials, new research has suggested.

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A Phase 2 clinical trial of an investigational universal influenza vaccine intended to protect against multiple strains of the virus has begun. The study is spo...

(University of Turku) Neuropathic pain is the chronic, pathological pain that continues even when the cause of pain is removed. Causes include damage to nerve cells and medicines used to treat cancer. A collaboration bet...

(University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers examined 1,713 cases of racehorse deaths from 2003 to 2015, and found racing was connected to some of the deaths.

(California Institute of Technology) Many studies have linked the gut microbiome to health and disease. New research from Caltech reveals mechanisms utilized by gut bacteria to assemble a microbiome in the first place.

(University of Kansas) Jason Travers of the University of Kansas found in an analysis that minorities were widely underrepreseted in autism identifications in 2014. The levels vary by state, but run counter to the claim ...

(Radboud University Medical Center) Tagworks Pharmaceuticals, based at Radboud university medical center, has developed a new technique for the targeted delivery of chemotherapy for tumors in cases where this was previou...

(University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine) People in chronic pain are some of the most difficult patients to treat. Clinicians and researchers at UW Medicine's Center for Pain Relief found that an in-depth qu...

(University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is one of eight otolaryngology training programs in the US to receive...

(University of Miami Miller School of Medicine) A researcher at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has found that the use of stimulants, such as methamphetamine, can negatively affect the health of HIV-pos...

(Loyola University Health System) The urine of kidney disease patients contains a diverse mix of bacteria such as Staphylococcus and Streptococcus, according to a Loyola study. The bacteria diversity generally was higher...

(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) During a stroke or an epileptic seizure, neurons in affected parts of the brain fire at an abnormally rapid rate. One byproduct of this condition is that the pH of the brain drops markedly...

(Brown University) A Brown University undergraduate led a JAMA Ophthalmology study showing that many ophthalmology residents face burnout and are often unable to participate in wellness initiatives, which has adverse con...