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Madrid, Spain, 14 June 2017: The results of a meta-analysis presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR)...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers have uncovered how mutations in a protein network drive several high-risk leukemias, offering new...

Credit: University of Plymouth Imagine walking along a South Devon beach on a lovely day. The waves are lapping on...

Madrid, Spain, 14 June 2017: The results of a pharmacokinetic study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology...

Credit: Boston Children's Hospital Up to 75 percent of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus -- an incurable autoimmune disease commonly...

Young adults who had chemotherapy as a child have decreased cognitive flexibility and a weaker short-term memory. Their ability to...

COLOGNE. In couples who have not been able to have children, male infertility is the cause in at least half...

Use of statins may speed up the onset of Parkinson's disease symptoms in people who are susceptible to the disease,...

In autoimmune diseases, the immune system wrongly identifies its "enemy", and produces antibodies that attack the patient's own cells. One...

COLOGNE. During colonoscopy screening for bowel cancer and in the four weeks after the procedure, the risk for complications to...

PHILADELPHIA - Several critical periods over a human life span - including before birth -- determine when individuals are the...

Credit: OIST While the mechanism of transmission of information at the contact point between two neurons -- the famous synapse...

facilities Despite legislation prohibiting the use of ultraviolet (UV) indoor tanning facilities by minors, one in every five tanning salons...

Credit: Courtesy of Eugene Shakhnovich A new rational drug design technique that uses a powerful computer algorithm to identify molecules...

Credit: Portrait: Cecilia Hedström A method to more accurately test anti-cancer drugs has now been developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy,...

Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center The gene p53 functions normally as a cancer suppressor, but mutated versions of the gene...

New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII), a New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) corporation, announces that Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey's...

Credit: Yamamoto et al., Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2017), doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfx083 Medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 (MCKD1) is a rare...

Cognitive behavioral therapy, which traditionally includes regular, and often weekly, visits to a clinician, is recommended by the American College...

Credit: University of Louisville LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A group of University of Louisville researchers and engineers has developed a free...