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(Georgetown University Medical Center) Adding a medication used to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder and migraines to a blood pressure medicine reversed some aspects of breast cancer in the offspring of mice at high risk ...

(Children's National Hospital) Fewer than half of California pharmacies provided correct prescription drug disposal details, a percentage that dropped if 'secret shoppers' made their call on a weekend, according to a bri...

(Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) New research reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center strengthens prior findings on the link betwe...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) One of the wonders of cell biology is its symmetry. Mammalian cells have one nucleus and one cell membrane, and most humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) For decades, therapy to strengthen pelvic muscles has been the standard treatment for men dealing with urinary incontinence after prostate surgery. But a new study suggests that may not b...

(Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association) Grizzly bears spend many months in hibernation, but their muscles do not suffer from the lack of movement. In the journal 'Scientific Reports', a...

(American College of Physicians) MIV-711, a novel selective cathepsin K inhibitor, was not more effective than placebo for reducing pain related to knee osteoarthritis. However, MIV-711 significantly reduced bone and car...

(NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) Pregnant women exposed to persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, had slightly smaller fetuses than women who haven't been exposed to ...

(University of California - San Francisco) A telephone survey conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco found that fewer than half of California pharmacies provided disposal instructions meeting US Food and Drug Admin...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) A study in Botswana by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health scientists finds that spikes in cases of life-threatening diarrhea in young children are ...

(University of Manchester) Scientists have discovered that people who regularly sleep for more than 11 hours or less than 4 hours are 2-3 times more likely to have the incurable disease, pulmonary fibrosis, compared to t...

(American Academy of Neurology) The scientific community has long believed that beta-amyloid, a protein that can clump together and form sticky plaques in the brain, is the first sign of Alzheimer's disease. Beta-amyloid...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Closing of local automotive assembly plants may lead to increases in deaths from opioid overdose, according to a study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine...

(Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) A groundbreaking law, the California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, which passed in 2018, will ban all sales of cosmetics that have been tested on animals after January 1, 202...