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PHILADELPHIA -- High drug prices as well as the excessive use of imaging and surgical procedures, and excessive administrative burdens...

March 13, 2018 - "Has this patient been drinking?" It's a critical question for neurosurgical nurses and other professionals when...

Patients with multimorbidity--two or more long-term medical conditions--have complex health care needs, often requiring higher levels of care than other...

Irvine, Calif., March 13, 2018 -- From a massive open online course countering science skepticism to intimate culinary workshops fostering...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Humans use an ability known as theory of mind every time they make inferences about someone else's...

ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- Febuxostat, a gout drug that has been in use for nearly a decade, was found...

Oncotarget announced that its peer-reviewed research publications will be indexed in Meta, a world-renowned database of scientific literature, alongside other...

Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy--one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects...

How a losing a skin protein can lead to cancer Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is a rare, inherited skin...

Credit: © D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards"...

Two new analyses of data from more than 10,000 heart attack survivors worldwide were presented by investigators from Brigham and...

ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The anti-inflammatory drug canakinumab had no effect on rates of newly diagnosed diabetes in people...

Credit: Lincoln D. Nadauld, email: [email protected] The use of advanced molecular diagnostic technologies, such as Next-Generation Sequencing based gene panel...

BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, University of Western Australia, University of Sydney, and Edith Cowan...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells and tissues,...

Scientists in Cairns (Australia) and Cardiff (Wales) have taken an important first step towards solving two problems that hinder access...

Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (MARCH 12, 2018) -- African-American men successfully lowered their high blood pressure to healthy levels when...

Fear of making mistakes and wider concerns about their social responsibility are among reasons why older people are rejecting digital...

Credit: Bhairavi Tolani, email: [email protected] David M. Jablons, email: [email protected] Even though the Shh pathway is mainly quiescent in adults,...

Credit: Nature Microbiology/Dermody Lab PITTSBURGH, March 12, 2018 - Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells...