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A newly discovered connection between two common prostate cancer treatments may soon make prostate cancer cells easier to destroy. Drugs that could capitalize on the discovery are already in the pipeline, report scientis...

(University College London) How disposable Lithium batteries degrade during normal use has been tracked in real-time by a UCL-led team using sophisticated 3-D imaging, giving a new way to non-invasively monitor performan...

November 2015 was the warmest November on record, and the seventh month in a row to average global temperatures that broke records set during previous years.

Nutrients found in cocoa may improve the heart health, a new study of patients with advanced kidney disease finds.

A steep rise in human cases of P. knowlesi malaria in Malaysia is likely to be linked to deforestation and associated environmental changes, according to new research. Plasmodium knowlesi is a zoonotic malaria parasite, ...

Putting up Christmas lights is part of the holiday tradition for many people, but it turns out that falls during installation can sometimes lead to serious or even deadly injuries, a recent study suggests.

A first-of-its-kind (anti-PD-1) immunotherapy was recently approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration as first-line treatment for metastatic melanoma--allowing greater access to this therapy for patients without hav...

Researchers have found that magnesium intake may be beneficial in preventing pancreatic cancer. Using information from the VITamins and Lifestyle study, the study analyzed data on more than 66,000 men and women, between ...

Researchers report that information and resources regarding effective therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder are not easily available for nonveterans, who can be affected by the condition after crimes, disasters, and...

The number of prescriptions for mostly unregulated compounded hormone therapy for women at menopause has reached an estimated 26 to 33 million a year. That approaches the 36 million prescriptions per year for well-regula...

Teenagers with moderate mental health problems who may not have considered smoking conventional cigarettes are turning to electronic cigarettes, a new study has found. Today's teens perceive e-cigarettes as less harmful,...

A public health researcher is proposing immediate, concrete steps to stem police shootings of black males.

Intestinal nematodes and roundworms infect more than one billion people worldwide, leading to malnutrition and developmental problems. Now a team of researchers has successfully inserted the gene for a naturally-occurrin...

Researchers have discovered that members of 4 families, apparently unrelated and living in different US States, shared the identical mutation of a gene called BAP1 that is associated with a higher incidence of mesothelio...

Quantum cryptography is considered a fully secure encryption method, but researchers from Linköping University and Stockholm University have discovered that this is not always the case. They found that energy-time entan...

There are many ways to keep tabs on the big guy in red.

The imperial goatee on King Tutankhamun's golden burial mask is back in business after scientists reattached it with beeswax, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.

It's time for teens to stop tanning.

Arctic scientist Stephanie Pfirman helped to develop a game to teach kids about our changing planet. She explains how it's played.

For a decade or more, many people have understood that educational technologies are likely to change how we teach and how our schools work. People can also see how medical...

When pandas get to pick a partner they want to mate with, they're more likely to make panda babies.

Researchers are looking for a relationship between eye movement and the brain to find biomarkers to help diagnose and treat concussions.