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The pain and itching associated with shingles and herpes may be due to the virus causing a "short circuit" in the nerve cells that reach the skin.

Treatment with two common drugs reduced viral replication and lung damage when given to monkeys infected with the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. The condition is a deadly pneumonia that has killed mo...

Paying doctors for how they perform specific medical procedures and examinations yields better health outcomes than the traditional "fee for service" model, where everyone gets paid a set amount regardless of quality or ...

Medical scientists have made a key discovery about how the immune system kills healthy cells while attacking infections. This finding could one day lead to better solutions for cancer and anti-viral treatments.

Medical researchers made a basic science discovery that advances the understanding of how DNA repairs itself. When DNA becomes too damaged it ultimately leads to cancer.

A remote region of north-west Kenya is sitting on 250 trillion litres of groundwater – enough to keep 40 million people in water if tapped sustainably     

Every day, in dozens of synchrotrons around the globe, electrons are whip­ped around in circular storage rings to provoke them into emitting X-rays, useful for imaging materials, identifying... --

After a nearly 40-year chase, physicists have found experimental proof for one of the first fractal patterns known to quantum physics: the Hofstadter butterfly. Named after Douglas Hofstadter, the... --

Last Friday was the perfect night to witness a moon mission. Lucky for me, NASA thought so too, and thus hurled a golf cart-sized probe aboard an Air Force Minotaur V rocket out of Earth's atmosphere en route to our frie...

In a multi-year study involving researchers found that modest monetary incentives to individual physicians resulted in a significant 8.36 percent increase in patients whose blood pressure was brought down to desired leve...

As a woman in her mid-forties who didn't smoke, Elizabeth Lacasia never expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer. But in 2006, after she developed a persistent and serious cough, a chest X-ray and CT scan revealed sever...

What we think of today as a "complete" genome is not truly complete. But, with the new technology, scientists can finally sequence an entire "complete" genome from an individual. The new technology gives unprecedented ac...

Four weeks of treatment with a combination of the drug pentoxifylline and the corticosteroid prednisolone did not improve 6-month survival compared with prednisolone alone in 270 patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis,...

Sufferers of the "Truman Show" syndrome imagine a world where everyone is watching them. And they're just barely wrong. What do you do when delusions and paranoia look an awful lot like the real world? That's at least on...

When editing digital images, algorithms struggle to differentiate one object from another, even when it seems obvious to the human eye. Some Israeli researchers have developed a workaround software that prompts the human...

The tough yet flexible material is electrically conductive and can be made in a few simple steps – it might find uses in a range of bendy medical sensors     

A new study reports that fatty liver and insulin resistance may result from fructose produced in the liver from non-fructose containing carbohydrates.

By studying how memories are made, neurobiologists created new, specific memories by direct manipulation of the brain, which could prove key to understanding and potentially resolving learning and memory disorders.

Use of stimulant medications to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents has increased significantly over the past several years. This trend toward increased use of prescription s...

How long until there's a Pixar movie?     

In the aftermath of high-profile trials for rape in India, a study has revealed the extent of sexual violence in other parts of Asia     

One of the most significant fossil discoveries in North America, showing two dinosaurs frozen in a fight to the death, will be auctioned in November