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Columbus, Ohio - A drug first identified 150 years ago and used as a smooth-muscle relaxant might make tumors more...

In a study of 15 patients affected by major depressive disorder and complaining of insomnia, initiating treatment with vortioxetine for...

A group of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators is proposing that targeting immune checkpoints - molecules that regulate the activity...

Credit: Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new device that can be used...

The 2.7 billion people who live in China and India -- more than a third of the world's population --...

In a survey-based study of 21,889 adults in Canada, severe and/or frequent physical abuse during childhood and frequent childhood exposure...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - With an estimated twenty-thousand protein-coding genes in the human genome, pinpointing a specific gene...

Credit: Photo: Jonas Bilberg What happens to those who behave unselfishly and make sacrifices for the sake of others? According...

Credit: Photo: Bob Demers/UANews After proving surprisingly beneficial in human clinical trials at the University of Arizona for the treatment...

Ann Arbor, October 17, 2018 - The burden of risk factors for chronic disease is substantially higher in black men...

Credit: Osaka University Dr Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the immune T-cell...

Fighting the Latest Ebola Scare, Tackling Disease Outbreaks, Pandemic Flu Concerns, Probing Tick Spit for Cures, Diseases in the Aftermath...

Scientists say there is not yet enough evidence to conclude that microplastics do or do not cause harm to the...

There just aren't enough kidney transplants available for the millions of people with renal failure. Aside from a transplant, the...

Credit: Cleveland Clinic October 17, 2018, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic's Genomic Medicine Institute, is receiving...

Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. October 17, 2018. Researchers have proposed a conceptual framework for examining the relationship between...

Found in saliva, the protein enzyme encoded by the AMY1 gene begins the digestive process by breaking down starch when...

WHAT: 11th World Stroke Congress brings together leading international stroke experts and an unparalleled scientific program covering epidemiology, prevention, acute...

Credit: Stepan Likhachev The employees of the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dmitry Zaitsev and Dmitry Tsvetkov and a...