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(University of Sydney) Ram semen stored at the University of Sydney for 50 years has been used to successfully impregnate 34 ewes, with fertility rates as high as recently stored semen.

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) PB2452 provides immediate and sustained reversal of ticagrelor's antiplatelet effects

(University of Melbourne) Australian researchers have used hepatitis B virus genome sequences to deduce that the mainland Aboriginal population separated from other early humans at least 59,000 years ago.

(European Association of Urology) Patients with prostate, bladder or kidney cancers are at greater risk of dying if they have had psychiatric care prior to the cancer treatment. In addition, patients with these cancers s...

(Cleveland Clinic) A Cleveland Clinic-led research team has found that using an absorbable, antibiotic-eluting envelope when implanting cardiac devices like pacemakers and defibrillators can cut the rate of major infecti...

(Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation) A recently released publication in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 'Prevention of Alcohol Use in Older Teens: A Randomized Trial of an Online Family Preventi...

(European Association of Urology) For the first time, scientists have identified compounds found in coffee which may inhibit the growth of prostate cancer. This is a pilot study, carried out on drug-resistant cancer cell...

(European Lung Foundation) A study of almost 500,000 women indicates that taking paracetamol or other painkillers during pregnancy is not responsible for increasing the risk of asthma in children. The research, which use...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) The study of more than 1,000 patients with severe heart failure not only confirms that the HeartMate 3™, a next-generation LVAD device, markedly reduced the need for re-operations due to ...