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Cancer screening is a critical approach for preventing cancer deaths because cases caught early are often more treatable. But while there are already existing ways to screen for different types of cancer, there is a grea...

The Southwest faces a dry and dusty forecast, with an 80 to 90 percent chance of a decade-long drought striking the region this century.

Patients who return to the emergency department within a few days of discharge do so principally because they are anxious about their symptoms and have lost trust in other parts of the health care system, according to th...

Being physically active every day may lower your risk of developing heart failure. The more active you are, the greater your protection from heart failure, studies show.

A team of researchers call for the implementation of taxes and subsidies to improve dietary quality in the United States. Over time, the size of the tax could be on a sliding scale depending on nutritional quality, a tac...

Among patients with morbid obesity, blocking the vagus nerve, which plays a role with appetite and metabolism, did not meet pre-specified efficacy objectives compared to a control group, although the intervention did res...

In an analysis of the type of bariatric surgery procedures used in Michigan in recent years, sleeve gastrectomy (SG) surpassed Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in 2012 as the most common procedure performed for patients s...

Among women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not associated with a lower ris...

In an analysis of data from nearly 50 trials including about 7,300 individuals, significant weight loss was observed with any low-carbohydrate or low-fat diet, with weight loss differences between diet programs small, fi...

Not only are particle detectors essential to making discoveries in particle physics, they also play important roles in industry, science and medicine. Ask someone what our world would look like if there were no cars or n...

An invasive species of cricket is displacing domestic crickets in the eastern United States, a study published in the journal PeerJ finds. The Asian camel cricket, Diestrammena asynamora, is occupying U.S. homes, particu...

After an exciting August that featured a "super" supermoon and the Perseid meteor shower, September may feel like a bit of a letdown for astronomy fans. But there are two standout events this month: the final supermoon o...

Hubristic humans should heed the tale of the passenger pigeon's demise, recounted by three books published on the centenary of its extinction

The number of people infected with Ebola in West Africa will likely increase significantly over the next few weeks, according to the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The geckos Russia sent to space to have sex have sadly perished, the Russian space agency said yesterday (Sept. 1). The mission's goal was to study the animals' mating, fertilization and embryonic development in a zero-g...

Researchers have found a possible way to mitigate one often-overlooked obesity risk: not buckling up in the car. A new study found that increasing the obesity rates are associated with a decrease in seatbelt usage. Howev...

Researchers may have discovered a new way of harnessing lupus antibodies to sabotage cancer cells made vulnerable by deficient DNA repair. The study found that cancer cells with deficient DNA repair mechanisms (or the in...

Mirabegron has been approved since December 2012 for the treatment of adults with overactive bladder. In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products, experts examine...

Overdose-related knowledge and experiences of young adult nonmedical prescription opioid users has been studied for the first time to better understand how prescription opioid use relates to the likelihood and experience...

Each year thousands of students enroll in medical schools across the country. But just how many feel they've been disrespected, publicly humiliated, ridiculed or even harassed by their superiors at some point during thei...

Physicians recommend against the routine use of activity restriction or bed rest, and in a new article outline their recommendations on its use.

Readout From an Emotion-Reading Google Glass App © Fraunhofer IIS/Jens Garbas Sometimes people are hard to read. Why not leave all that work to a computer? Perhaps you could use this experimental app that works in Googl...