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Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. - A simple, one-page form given to patients ahead of their doctor visit can significantly...

Credit: Scott Wiseman/The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL--April 17, 2018--Memory T cells are a critical element of our immune system's...

Credit: @PharmaMar 2018 PharmaMar (MSE: PHM) has presented during the AACR meeting (American Association for Cancer Research) in Chicago new...

Bottom Line: For adults 65 years or older who are at increased risk of falling, the U.S. Preventive Services Task...

Credit: University of Virginia School of Medicine WHAT'S NOTABLE: A naturally occurring version of the gene KLF14 affects some women's...

GALVESTON, Texas - A 2014 federal change that limited the dispensing of hydrocodone products may be indirectly contributing to the...

The most widely used biomarkers for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are currently the concentrations of beta-amyloid and...

Bottom Line: In a comparison of different classes of drugs used to lower blood sugar levels for patients with type...

Credit: Kelleher Research Group, Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- When a RAS gene operates normally, it acts as an on/off...

Philadelphia, April 17, 2018 - Evidence suggests that developing cooking and food preparation skills is important for health and nutrition,...

Credit: Cassidy VanderSchee New research shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through...

Credit: Lobachevsky University A team of researchers from Lobachevsky University (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) headed by Professor Alexei Fedorov, Chair of...

April 17, 2018 -- A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of...

Opioids are not among the most effective--or longest lasting--options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 17, 2018) - The high estrogen levels that typically afford...

Credit: S. Gran & L. Honold et al./Theranostics 2018(8) The process that the body sets in motion in the event...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Every year, health care providers in the United States discover more than 1.6 million...

Credit: Tuppi et al. FMany chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most normal...

San Diego (April 17, 2018) -- APS President Dennis Brown, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has...

ANN ARBOR--Most of the roughly 15.5 million cancer survivors in the U.S. receive chemotherapy, and roughly 65 percent develop some...