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State public health departments do not necessarily lose funding when merged with larger Medicaid programs, according to a just-released study.

A study has been conducted to determine whether single-fraction radiation treatment, shown to be as effective as multiple-fraction treatment with less potential for harm, has been incorporated into routine clinical pract...

Among patients with pancreatic cancer who had surgery for removal of the cancer, treatment with the drug gemcitabine for 6 months resulted in increased overall survival as well as disease-free survival, compared with obs...

Consider the following questions: Will robots help us to be more productive and creative or lazy and exploited? Will androids be greeted with open arms or a new kind of prejudice? How will humans be “human” when so m...

Cool E-Cig via Flickr This morning, the European Parliament, the legislative body of the European Union, voted to reject a proposal that electronic cigarettes or "e-cigs" be regulated as medical devices. The ruling, whic...

You might not think to look to a urine test to diagnose an eye disease. But a new study says it can link what is in a patient's urine to gene mutations that cause retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited, degenerative disease ...

Using a common test of brain functioning, researchers have found differences in the brains of adolescents with the inattentive and combined subtypes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and teens who do not have t...

Damaged or diseased organs may someday be healed with an injection of blood vessel cells, eliminating the need for donated organs and transplants.

The American Society for Cell Biology warns that temporary shutdown is inflicting long-term damage on American biomedicine.

Researchers have identified a promising screening tool to detect intimate partner violence in females in the VA Boston Healthcare System. The findings accurately detected 78 percent of women identified as abused within t...

Researchers say they have pinpointed a site in a highly developed area of the human brain that plays an important role in the subconscious recognition of which way is straight up and which way is down.

We've long suspected that swifts spend most of their lives on the wing ' now, a study suggests there's some truth to the idea     

While women are far more likely to suffer urinary tract infections, men are more prone to be hospitalized for treatment. The first-of-its-kind research for the most common bacterial infection in the US is important in pr...

The oldest known minerals in the solar system show evidence of a nearby star explosion – maybe even the one that triggered the birth of the sun     

A database that lists land deals between governments of developing countries and foreign firms appears to detail many more deals than really exist     

A recently published study suggests that exposure to social stress not only impairs a mother's ability to care for her children but can also negatively impact her daughter's ability to provide maternal care to future off...

Ever feel the weight of guilt? Lots of people say they do. They're "carrying guilt" or "weighed down by guilt." Are these just expressions, or is there something more to these metaphors? Researchers have now found eviden...

Investigators have found that selected patients over the age of 70 were more likely to be discharged to their own homes -- instead of a nursing facility -- following laparoscopic operations when compared with patients wh...

Crude incidence rates of breast cancer among U.S. female active component service members have fluctuated slightly over the past 12 years, but have remained relatively stable, according to a new study.

All the latest on newscientist.com: a ghost ship lost now in the Atlantic, Higgs Nobel, first malaria vaccine, tabletop fusion and more     

A satellite image of Greenland's southern tip shows the branching fjords that reach deep into the island's doomed ice-fields     

Pneumonia is the leading cause of death of young children around the world, and a study from an international group of researchers now finds that the risk of poor outcomes -- including persistent pneumonia, secondary inf...