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Researchers have come up with an answer for health care systems and professionals struggling with how to most effectively adopt evidence-based practice in their clinical settings. They've developed evidence-based practic...

Researchers have identified diagnostic microRNA panels in whole blood that had the ability to distinguish, to some degree, patients with and without pancreatic cancer, according to a study. The authors caution that the f...

A multicenter study that previously reported a reduction in heart attack and stroke with a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or with nuts now also reports a lower risk of peripheral artery disea...

Researchers have found amplification of HER2, a known driver of some breast cancers, in a type of bladder cancer called micropapillary urothelial carcinoma (MPUC) and have shown that the presence of HER2 amplification is...

A collaboration of surgeons in the U.S. and India successfully transplanted kidneys into 50 recipients using an innovative robot-assisted procedure in which the organ is cooled with sterile ice during the operation.

Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine is more effective than artemether-lumefantrine as a malaria medication, and has fewer side effects than artesunate-mefloquine' concludes a systematic review

Levels of depression and anxiety in people with severe rheumatoid arthritis are higher than previously reported, according to new research. As a result of their findings, a multi-center team says

New research demonstrates, for the first time, the existence of an epigenetic lesion in the hippocampus of the brain of patients with Alzheimer's

World War II ravaged much of Europe, and its long-term effects are still being felt. A new survey shows that elderly people who experienced the war as children are more likely to suffer from

Taxing sugar - before it's added to processed foods - would reduce obesity-related disease in America, and cut medical costs to boot, according to research.

AML is a blood cancer, but for many patients the cancer may originate from an unusual source: a mutation in their bone cells. In a study published, researchers explain that a mutation in the bone cells called osteoblasts...

Many patients and physicians assume that the safety and effectiveness of newly approved drugs is well understood by the federal Food and Drug Administration -- but a new study shows that the clinical trials used by the f...

Several potentially preventable deficiencies, including failure to select optimal drug doses and suitable outcome measures for a study, account for significant delays in the approval of new drugs by the Food and Drug Adm...

The demand for genetic counseling is rapidly increasing as genetic testing for susceptibility to a vast range of diseases is now available. Can telephone counseling deliver the same quality and satisfaction as face-to-fa...

Giant wind turbines appear as white specks across the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom, in this satellite photo of the London Array, the world's largest offshore wind farm.

The annual analysis of global surface temperatures by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, indicates 2013 was the fourth warmest year since 1880. NASA's analysis has it slightly lower, coming in as ...

Ever since 2013's "Blizzard Nemo," it seems all big U.S. snowstorms get a name, and this one is no exception. Get ready for Winter Storm Janus, which has caused thousands of flights to be canceled in its wake. Needless t...

An environmental scientist captured images of a wild beaver in Devon, England, believed to have been hunted to extinction in the 12th century. BBC

A test that looks for specific genetic material in the blood may have the potential to identify pancreatic cancer in its early stages, according to preliminary research from Denmark.

A new experiment that, for the first time, creates a beam of antihydrogen atoms, could help scientists understand why antimatter is so scarce is the universe.

The debate over whether alcohol or marijuana is worse for health has been reignited by comments President Barack Obama made in a recent interview. Here's a look at what science has to say.

Findings from a study ultimately could lead to tests to screen for and diagnose bladder cancer.