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Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science With new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma, recovery rates have risen dramatically, in some cases to around 50%. But they could...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an advanced notice of a proposed rule in March that would reduce nicotine in all cigarettes and possibly...

Credit: Onodera Y., et al., Nature Communications, July 11, 2018 Uncovered details of a molecular pathway in cancer cells could lead to improved treatment. Targeting...

PRINCETON, N.J.--Europe's decision to promote the use of wood as a "renewable fuel" will likely greatly increase Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and cause severe harm...

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF. - Sept. 12, 2018 - For almost a century, scientists have observed a strange...

Credit: María Elena Gutiérrez Lagoueyte at Universidad EIA More than 50 years of internal conflict in Colombia have left behind roughly 8 million victims, including...

Scientific and medical institutions must fundamentally reconsider how they address sexual harassment in the workplace, three national leaders in gender equity in medicine argue in...

Credit: Fred Pineda, postdoctoral fellow, the University of Chicago Medicine Getting magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans twice a year instead of one annual mammogram is...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Nearly 2.3 million times last year, Americans learned they had a sexually transmitted disease. But despite these record-high infection rates for...

Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability originating in childhood. Approximately 2 of every 1000 babies born acquire...

Credit: University of Otago University of Otago researchers have helped characterise a genetic variant that enables new understanding of why some people are at risk...

Gun violence, obesity, and the misuse of opioids and alcohol are responsible for roughly 374,000 deaths--15 percent of all deaths--each year in the United States....

September 13, 2018 - A major US children's hospital introduced a first-of-its-kind project to eliminate or reduce pain from elective needle procedures in all infants...

Credit: Ollmann Saphire lab, Scripps Research Two new studies by scientists at Scripps Research are bringing Ebola virus's weaknesses into the spotlight, showing for the...

Credit: William Grover RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- What if a single musical note could mean the difference between life and death? A new sensor based on...