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More than 40 percent of pregnant low-income women discharged from the hospital after a diagnosis of false or early labor did not want to be sent home, with the most common reasons being that they were in too much pain or...

Scientists have known for decades that Greenland's ice sheet is melting, but they may have underestimated just how much water the second-largest ice sheet on the planet is shedding. New research indicates that a key sect...

Researchers have found a set of biomarkers in urine and serum samples that were different between women with preeclampsia, women with normal pregnancies and women who were not pregnant. These biomarkers tell the story of...

Children who most prefer high levels of sweet tastes also most prefer high levels of salt taste and, in general, children prefer sweeter and saltier tastes than do adults. These preferences also relate to measures of gro...

Lewy body dementia is the most misdiagnosed dementia, affecting 1.3 million Americans. "Early and accurate diagnosis is critical," says one expert. "In fact, it may be life-saving. Unlike Alzheimer's disease, people with...

Adult survivors of childhood cancer face significant health problems as they age and are five times more likely than their siblings to develop new cancers, heart and other serious health conditions beyond the age of 35, ...

One in eight visits to a a doctor for a headache or migraine end up with the patient going for a brain scan, at a total cost of about $1 billion a year, a new study finds. And many of those MRI and CT scans -- and costs ...

The increasing number of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) being performed at low-volume centers without on-site cardiac surgery backup has driven the need for new safety and quality protocols, according to an e...

Using genome sequencing, scientists have tracked the evolution of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258), an important agent of hospital-acquired infections. While researchers ...

A team of scientists report that cathepsin B gene knockout or its reduction by an enzyme inhibitor blocks creation of key neurotoxic pGlu-Abeta peptides linked to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Moreover, the candidate inhibit...

People who experience chronic sleep disturbance could face an earlier onset of dementia and Alzheimer's, results from a new pre-clinical study indicate. "We can conclude from this study that chronic sleep disturbance is ...

A cellular protein, STAT3, which is overactive in a majority of cancers, interferes with an antitumor mechanism in cells and therefore promotes the growth of cancer, an international research team has discovered. The res...

Researchers have learned how to fix a cellular structure called the Golgi that mysteriously becomes fragmented in all Alzheimer's patients and appears to be a major cause of the disease. They say that understanding this ...

In younger adults experiencing heart attacks and angina, men are more likely to receive faster care compared with women, new research shows. In the study, men received faster access to electrocardiograms (ECGs) and fibri...

Manipulating the CD80/CD86 pathway may yield new strategies for treating multiple myeloma, new research on dendritic cells suggests. This research focused on the immune system's dendritic cells (DCs), crucial cells that ...

In response to drug-resistant "superbugs" that send millions of people to hospitals around the world, scientists are building tiny, "molecular drill bits" that kill bacteria by bursting through their protective cell wall...

Garrett is just the second person whose life was saved with a new, bioresorbable device. He needed to be on a ventilator at pressure levels that had reached the maximum, and he was not improving. Often on strong medicati...

The cocktail hour at the 110th Explorers Club Annual Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel featured exotic menu options, including alligator meat, goat testicles, jellyfish and worms. The adventurous hors d'oeuvres have be...

Construction is underway for a subway extension in Los Angeles but the location is no ordinary worksite as paleontologists are working to recover fossils that date back 300,000 to two million years. Geoduck clams unearth...

A drug made from snail venom is showing early signs of success in numbing pain, according to Agency France Press. The experimental drug, which has been tested on lab rats but not on humans, is considered to be about 100 ...

Graffiti "Internet" on the wall in Vodice, Croatia. Ronald Eikelenboom, via Wikimedia Commons On Friday, the United States announced some very big news in a very boring way. The U.S. government is relinquishing its last ...

The imprint of gravitational waves created shortly after the big bang may offer direct evidence for inflation theory, according to a discovery by the BICEP2 experiment at the South Pole --