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Among older patients with diabetes, those who are overweight or obese may have a lower risk of dying prematurely than...

The drug lesinurad in combination with febuxostat was better at lowering blood levels of urate than febuxostat alone in a...

Credit: Scripps Health SAN DIEGO - Low-income Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for...

Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles, like x-rays or electron beams, is a common and critical component in successfully treating...

Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a new robotic tool for assessments of muscle overactivity and...

Philadelphia - As the pace of drug approvals accelerates and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces potential budget...

Most women who undergo a cesarean childbirth are prescribed more opioid (narcotic) pain medications than needed upon release from the...

A new study looks at the experiences of African American Christian counseling students from the Black church as they seek...

Credit: School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- A new study led by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis...

SALT LAKE CITY -Almost 6,000 new cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, are expected to be diagnosed this year...

The global medical device standard IEC 60601-1-8, first published in 2006, specifies safety and performance requirements for auditory alarms in...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Abortion fund recipients who have to travel out of state for an abortion travel roughly 10 times...

Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, June 9, 2017 - Modern military conflict has dramatically increased the number...

Credit: Photo courtesy of Dhaval Parmar CLEMSON, South Carolina -- While working for an environmental nonprofit organization in India, Namrata...

A new study, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, has shown that selling rewards programmes to participants entering...

Credit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine June 8, 2017--(BRONX, NY)--The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein...

Credit: Credit: NICHD/NIH Research is essential to determining how best to screen pregnant women for opioid use disorder, to treat...

Credit: Loyola University Chicago MAYWOOD, IL - Grateful for the life-saving care they received at Loyola Medicine, Peter and Heidi...

Credit: Junji Morokuma, Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University- MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 8, 2017) - Flatworms that spent five weeks...

Credit: Chris Wall Researchers at University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) were recently awarded a...