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Every six weeks for the past nine years, Mawasi Belle has been donating blood, totaling nearly 80 trips to the medical institution and thousands of pints of blood collected. But for Belle, this selfless act is merely a p...

The number of deaths involving commonly prescribed painkillers is higher than the number of deaths by overdose from heroin and cocaine combined, according to researchers. In a first-of-its-kind review of existing researc...

Researchers have announced findings that provide evidence for reduced grasping and fine motor activity among six-month-old infants with an increased familial risk for autism spectrum disorders.

Since 2010, when young adults could be covered under their parents' health insurance plans until age 26, self-reported health among this group has improved, a large survey indicates, along with a decrease in out-of-pocke...

Adding clot-busting medications known as thrombolytics to conventional approaches when treating sudden-onset pulmonary embolism patients is associated with 47 percent fewer deaths than using standard intravenous or under...

In patients with advanced uveal melanoma, treatment with the agent selumetinib, compared with chemotherapy, resulted in an improved cancer progression-free survival time and tumor response rate, but no improvement in ove...

Use of a popular class of medications known as tumor necrosis factor alpha antagonists was not associated with an increased risk of cancer over a median follow-up of 3.7 years, according to a study that included more tha...

The search for the missing MH370 will be focused in the southwest Indian Ocean based on new satellite data. According to data from Inmarsat, the plane was heading south and a three-month ocean floor survey is mapping loc...

Health advocates are calling for a ban on chewing tobacco following the untimely death of Hall-of-Famer Tony Gwynn. Critics hope that the beloved player's passing will be a wake-up call, but the practice has long been a ...

People in relationships who constantly question whether their partner loves them or whether they've found Mr. or Ms. Right, may have a condition known as relationship obsessive-compulsive disorder.

From allowing our eyes to see, to enabling green plants to harvest energy from the sun, photochemical reactions - reactions triggered by light - are both ubiquitous and critical to nature. Photochemical reactions also pl...

Margaret Lock takes a holistic view of Alzheimer's. She warns that it's here to stay and explains why it's time to rethink one of our greatest health woes (full text available to subscribers)

A new startup uses vein recognition technology as a way for customers to make purchases using only the palms of their hands.

Barriers to obtaining gene expression profiling tests heightened their perceived importance among patients with early breast cancer who were deciding whether to have chemotherapy, a new study says. Gene expression profil...

A proposal claims that harnessing quantum entanglement could surpass the accuracy of any single atomic clock --

Early interventions among Head Start preschool families improve sleep behaviors for kids, parents, according to new study.

Coconut water is the focus of much hype, but is it really good for you? Experts weigh in.

(Phys.org) --A team of physicists in Europe, led by Marcin Pawlowski, has proposed a way to use entangled quantum particles to improve the odds of winning in the game of bridge. As the team notes in their paper published...

The "boring billion," the long evolutionary pause when slime ruled the Earth, might be due a planetary cooling-off period that stalled plate tectonics, a new study finds.

Joanna Bourke's The Story of Pain may not be able to tell us how to suffer better, but consoles with the notion that pain can be pleasure

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a naval submarine and called for combat preparations and underwater warfare capabilities, according to a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) news release from June 16.

Sound waves can be powerful - powerful enough to move large groups of particles. Recently, scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced an acoustic sieve that can sift, move, trap, or align large groups of par...