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Johns Hopkins researchers report success with a smart phone video-based app that substitutes for a daily in-person visit by a health care worker required for...

(Boston)--The average profile of an American using a gun for suicide is a married, white male over the age of 50 who is experiencing deteriorating...

A new study from City, University of London and MIT may have revealed the reasons behind our memory limitations. The researchers found that trying to...

© Monet, Fotolia Patients with meningococcal infection generally develop symptoms including a high temperature, vomiting and a stiff neck... but they might also just have...

Plants have provided a new avenue in curbing tumor growth. On this occasion, it doesn't involve miracle species or the like, but rather the results...

A study of nearly 6,000 Americans followed for 24 years from middle to late adulthood found that having chronic inflammation in middle age may be...

Credit: Russell McIntire, Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) (PHILADELPHIA) - To catch prostate cancer at earlier stages, when it's more easily treated, many...

NEW YORK (April 26, 2018) - Probiotics may be a relatively safe, simple, and low-cost solution for preventing Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) in hospital settings,...

LOS ANGELES - In March 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ocrelizumab as the first treatment for both relapsing (RMS) and progressive forms...

Credit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University About 21 million years ago, a fungus that causes a devastating disease in rice first became harmful to the food that...

The new finding published today in Pediatric Anesthesia, is based on a data-linkage study of over 210,000 children in New South Wales, Australia. The 211,978...

Credit: Osaka University Osaka - When a pathogen evades or overcomes our innate immune defenses, the adaptive immune system kicks into action. There are two...

The two most common types of inflammatory bowel diseases are ulcerous colitis and Crohn's disease. These are diagnosed by camera inside the gut, and by...

(Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague)) An international science team at IOCB Prague and Johns Hopkins University...

Credit: Sasaki A. et al., Cell Reports, April 24, 2018 Obesity is a known risk factor for certain types of cancer, including colon, pancreatic and...