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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, 10 June 2017 -- A pioneering contact lens therapy has considerable potential to impact the rising prevalence of...

Interim results from a FDA-approved clinical trial testing the generic vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes...

Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga, UNC Health Care Chapel Hill, NC - In a landmark study, UNC School of Medicine researchers have...

Credit: Photo courtesy of Robbie B. Mailliard, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health In an expanded, three-year...

Credit: University of Alberta A new diagnostic developed by Alberta scientists will allow men to bypass painful biopsies to test...

Hospitals and all the other centres devoted to healthcare accumulate numerous databases with all the records of a whole host...

WASHINGTON, DC - June 9, 2017 - The pathogen, Vibrio cholerae can colonize the surfaces, as well as the intestines...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new study from the University of Iowa shows that a pair of common chemicals that manufacturers use to make...

How will convergence impact the future of cancer research? Answering that question is the driving force behind the Koch Institute...

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

Mice born into an oxygen-rich environment respond worse to the flu once fully grown due to an absence of certain...

Credit: Etienne G. J. Danchin and colleagues The nematode worms that cause the world's most devastating crop losses have given...

Credit: Tina Meketa TAMPA, Fla. (June 9, 2017) - University of South Florida associate professor Dominic D'Agostino, PhD, is one...

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