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The cholesterol medicine simvastatin, which is one of the most commonly used pharmaceuticals in the world, also has a beneficial...

Genetic testing in men with advanced prostate cancer could pick up a significant proportion whose disease may be caused by...

ecancer’s latest Special Issue provides an update on rapidly evolving developments in palliative cancer care in Africa. This is the...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) suppresses HIV replication and significantly slows the progression of disease, enabling HIV+ individuals to effectively manage...

Influenza A viruses are responsible for seasonal disease outbreaks in humans. Influenza A also circulates among bird and some mammal...

WASHINGTON (July 7, 2016) — Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) created a conceptual model for episodes of acute,...

Group A streptococcus (GAS) can cause a life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis, which spreads rapidly and destroys soft tissue. Treatment of these...

A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and two other institutions, today received $12 million...

Credit: Photo by Rebekah Mosci, a co-author of the study. EAST LANSING, Mich. — A collaborative Michigan State University study...

Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases: it infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills about...

(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers...

SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announces a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for...

Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus...

Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields...