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The largest study of its kind found mothers who consumed their placenta passed on no harm to their newborn babies when compared to infants of...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Just like any long polymer chain, DNA tends to form knots. Using technology that allows them to stretch DNA molecules and image...

CHICAGO --- Men who take once-daily aspirin have nearly double the risk of melanoma compared to men who are not exposed to daily aspirin, reports...

Credit: Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio - Bacterial toxins can wreak mass havoc within cells by shutting down multiple essential functions at once, a new study...

A study co-authored by Dr. Michael A. Lindsey, Executive Director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy & Research at the Silver of Social Work...

New York, NY (May 3, 2018)--Cognitive remediation, an evidence-based, recovery-oriented behavioral intervention for patients with mental illness, can feasibly be implemented in large systems of...

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is hosting a new EU collaborative project. Funded via the European 'Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation', the project...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to...

TORONTO, May 2, 2018 -Pediatricians, research scientists, health care providers and policy makers from around the world will convene in Toronto on May 5-8, 2018...

We are our own worst enemy when it comes to developing obesity. The body is naturally geared to assimilate energy from the food we eat...

Credit: Seoul National University and Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea RESTON, VA -- A novel PET tracer developed by Korean researchers can visualize joint...

A study by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) points to a novel potential approach against Alzheimer's disease. In studies in mice,...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Zach Smith has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder marked by progressive muscle degeneration. His lack of...

The day of the week on which a patient has a lung cancer operation has no significance for their survival. This has been demonstrated by...

Credit: Ryan Sanford While the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has largely dropped from news headlines since the 1990s, at the end of 2016 there were...