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The World Health Organization, or WHO, said Friday that the presence of "shadow zones" -- regions in the Ebola-affected countries inaccessible to doctors and health workers -- and under-reporting of cases have undermined...

An antique copper awl, recently discovered in Israel, is claimed to be the oldest metal object ever found in the Middle East. The discovery suggests that ancient people in the region started using metals more than 6,000 ...

A small eruption began Saturday at Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano, which sits beneath a large ice cap. The explosion prompted the Icelandic Meteorological Office to issue its highest volcano alert. The office previously w...

One week after an earthquake swarm first warned of approaching magma, a volcanic eruption has started near Iceland's Barðarbunga volcano.

Among the spectrum of technological innovations that are potentially forthcoming, human cloning is among the most debated and ethically ambiguous. In his award-winning sci-fi short, Restitution, writer/director Justin Mi...

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Epidermal growth factor receptor mutations found in the circulating free tumor DNA from the plasma of advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients correlates well with the epidermal growth factor receptor mutations from ...

For the first time, an oncogenic somatic mutation at amino acid 918 in the rearranged during transfection protein has been identified in small cell lung cancer tumors and enforced expression of this mutation within small...

Bcl-2-like protein 11 deletion in advanced non-small cell lung cancer is associated with shorter progression free survival in epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor or chemotherapy treated Asian patie...

Two psychological interventions have been separately and in combination been studied to determine their effectiveness in offering relief to RA patients. Cognitive-behavioral coping skills training trains patients in vari...

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Years of forest management saved hundreds of Arizona homes from disaster this year.