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Children who develop inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) have an increased risk of death, both in childhood...

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have discovered a potentially new approach to deliver therapeutics more effectively...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study identified a significant association between HIV...

Credit: Shawn Rocco/ Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- As e-cigarette use expands among teens in the U.S., so have vaping...

Researchers from the School of Economics set out to establish to what extent living under communism, both in terms of...

Credit: Gavin Palowitch, Penn State Some bacterial pathogens, including those that cause strep throat and pneumonia, are able to create...

Credit: Video courtesy of Silvia Bunge A half-decade ago, UC Berkeley neuroscientists discovered that training for law school admission exams...

Credit: Seattle Children's Advances in optimisation of the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 in zebrafish disease models offer a new level of...

TODAY'S CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS Late-breaking trials Systemic thrombolysis in patients with known and unknown time window. A pre-specified subgroup analysis of...

Credit: University of Michigan Despite years of warnings that older adults shouldn't take sedative drugs that put them at risk...

Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and UC San Diego...

Credit: Photo by Alua Magzumova on Unsplash According to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health...

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) invites all journalists to attend its 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting -- the country's largest...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, October 17, 2018--A new study by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the...

Credit: Jaakko Sarin Osteoarthritis is a disabling disease characterised by joint pain and restricted mobility, affecting especially the elderly. The...

Scientists at the University of York have found a way of distinguishing between fatal prostate cancer and manageable cancer, which...

Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Embargoed Until Oct. 18, 2018 @ 10:05AM ET) -- A surgical technique called EDAS (encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis) significantly...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Samples of ancient sediments from a lake basin in East Africa have revealed that arid conditions...

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 17, 2018--A new collaborative study has investigated Arctic shrub-snow interactions to...

Innovative cardioprotective strategies are of imminent demand. Nonfatal myocardial ischemia (MI) poses a significant risk to patients undergoing major non-cardiac...