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Clinical guidelines for diagnosing strep throat in teens and adults differ, as do physician practices. A recent study supports guidelines that mandate confirming negative rapid test results with a lab culture when a pati...

Screening for lung cancer leads to early detection and treatment, but can it also make people stop smoking before they get cancer? The answer is that it depends on the seriousness of the results, according to a study. Th...

A protein critical to the spread of deadly cancer cells has been discovered by researchers who have determined how it works, paving the way for potential use in diagnosis and eventually possible therapeutic drugs to halt...

While younger black trauma patients are significantly more likely than whites to die from their injuries, black trauma patients over the age of 65 are 20 percent less likely to do so. This research runs counter to most h...

The basic motion of tear film traversing the eye has been the focus of recent study. Dry eye -- a burning, gritty condition that can impair vision and damage the cornea -- is a common condition without a cure. Many cause...

Levels of prior sex education and moral attitudes toward contraception influence whether women use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, and unplanned pr...

A pilot study to evaluate a patient-centered educational and behavioral self-care program called The Optimal Lymph Flow was recently launched. The goals of the program were to promote lymph flow and optimize BMI over a 1...

Waco CG-4A Hadrian Glider Rendered By Dassault Systèmes In the background is the old blueprint. The ink did not keep well for posterity, and has run together making it hard to read. Dassault Systèmes The June 6th, 1944...

Female scorpions are more aggressive because their extra weight makes it difficult to sprint quickly, new research suggests

Firefighters from the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge rescued five wolf pups from an abandoned den while battling the Funny River Fire.

When Google took credit for a 2012 UFO sighting, the image it offered bore little resemblance to photos at hand. That's because the balloon was a prototype, and one that had gone rogue, says a Google team leader.

These eight weather words are fairly common in meteorology but are not often heard in mainstream weather reporting.

Scientists are closely tracking Greenland's 2014 summer thaw to see if it will repeat 2012's impressive meltdown, or return to a more mundane trend.

Surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic are learning to attack hard-to-reach brain tumors by entering patients' skulls through their noses.

It's the first resort for anything from a child's fever to arthritis - but paracetamol (acetaminophen) isn't as safe or effective as we thought it was (full text available to subscribers)

As new treatments for hepatitis C virus (HCV) are approved, biomedical scientists are exploring their mechanisms and what they reveal about the virus. A new report is the first to report real-time tracking of viral decay...

A commercial test designed to rule out the presence of genetic biomarkers of prostate cancer may be accurate enough to exclude the need for repeat prostate biopsies in many -- if not most -- men, a new article reports. "...

A treatment for dry eye--a burning, gritty condition that can impair vision and damage the cornea--could some day result from computer simulations that map the way tears move across the surface of the eye.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program to develop technologies to treat neuropsychiatric illnesses or injuries by electrically stimulating the brain.

The global scientific society Institute of Physics recently announced that their editors selected a research article by a team from Chapman University's Institute for Quantum Studies "for inclusion in the exclusive 'High...

Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle accelerator can be significantly relaxed. Researchers hop...

In 34 wealthy nations, the smog from roads accounts for half of the $1.7 trillion cost of air pollution