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Using high-precision genetic tests to differentiate the thousands of bacteria that make up the human microbiome, researchers suggest that they have found a possible -- and potentially surprising -- root cause of the incr...

Fake DNA letters designed in the lab are good enough to form the same long chains as the real thing, and could be incorporated into living cells

Contact lenses may change the bacteria that live on the surface of your eyes, a small new study finds.

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A role for combination therapy using two or more chemotherapy agents at the same time has not been well studied. This week, however, results of a clinical trial may change the perspective on a role for combination chemot...

Whole Brain Radiation Therapy (WBRT) is associated with significantly worse cognitive function than radiosurgery, and should no longer be used in the adjuvant setting after radiosurgery to treat cancer patients with brai...

Treating advanced melanoma patients with either a combination of the immunotherapy drugs nivolumab and ipilimumab or nivolumab alone significantly increases progression-free survival over using ipilimumab alone, accordin...

As the most malignant of primary brain cancers, glioblastomas are frustratingly difficult to treat. Surgery is often risky and cannot remove all of the tumor, and chemotherapy eventually becomes ineffective for most pati...

Sitting is the new smoking, linked to heart disease, diabetes and even cancer. Here's how to offset that box-set marathon (full text available to subscribers)

Sleep deprivation brings out our bad side, whether we skip a night's sleep or just don't get enough regularly. To avoid the worst, take a cat nap (full text available to subscribers)