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PITTSBURGH, May 2, 2018 - Due to the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C virus (HCV) is increasing among pregnant women, resulting in a greater risk of...

From 2002 to 2013, New York City implemented a series of policies prioritizing the public's health in areas beyond traditional healthcare policies and illustrated the...

Credit: Osaka University The human body consists of about 35 trillion cells, so it could be said that overall body growth is the growth of...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(MAY 1, 2018) If 95 percent of your neighbors are chatty and outgoing, you probably know more about them than the...

Tanning addiction plagues teenage minorities in Los Angeles, and that dependency is associated with marijuana abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental health issues, a Keck...

Orange County teens are facing varied and more frequent types of dating violence than any generation before them. Chapman University researchers have partnered with Orange...

Credit: BIDMC Media Services BOSTON - Twenty-five million Americans suffer from asthma, a chronic lung disease that has been on the rise since the 1980s....

Credit: US Army photo by David McNally ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- The battlefield of the future will be complex, with mountains of data moving...

For high school baseball pitchers, limiting throws during a game helps to prevent fatigue and injuries. But nearly half the number of pitches -- ones...

DURHAM, N.C. -- More than 2 million people worldwide live with inherited and untreatable retinal conditions, including retinitis pigmentosa, which slowly erodes vision. Developing treatments...

(University of California - Irvine) The University of California, Irvine and nationwide partners are launching a landmark $1.5 billion National Institutes of Health-led precisions medicine...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded approval for a personalized cellular therapy developed at the University of...

ROSEMONT, Ill. (May 1, 2018)--An estimated 45 percent of people are at risk of developing knee osteoarthritis (OA) in their lifetime. According to a network...

Credit: Ron Wolf University of Wyoming researchers have been studying how best to bolster the southern sea otter population, which suffers from low genetic diversity...

Credit: RP Baum, THERANOSTICS Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany RESTON, Va - German researchers have developed a...