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Credit: L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Obesity is associated with a host of health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood...

Credit: Kapila Gunasekera, University of Zurich Cells use different signals to react to stress and to inform other body cells. Triggers are, for example, cancer...

Alexandria, Va., USA - The American Association for Dental Research, with funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will host the AADR Oral...

In one-fifth of people with active tuberculosis (TB), the site of disease is outside the lungs (extrapulmonary TB). Some forms of extrapulmonary TB, such as...

EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:30 AM ET on August 28, 2018, Munich, Germany: Researchers at Cleveland Clinic, University of Oxford and University of Erlangen have identified a...

Credit: Neumann/Charité Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied motor and cognitive effects of deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease. Their res..

Credit: NIAID/NIH Most people infected with Zika never show symptoms. But the virus sometimes causes severe disability -- from microcephaly in babies to weakness or...

Credit: Osaka University Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis, are chronic inflammatory diseases of unknown cause, and the number of...

An Irish survey of 200 men and women examines awareness, understanding, and use of food labels in preventing lifestyle-related disease in a primary care setting....

The following papers will be presented at the ESC congress in Munich, and published simultaneously in The Lancet journal. All papers are under embargo until...

Munich, Germany - 28 Aug 2018: A new treatment can halve hospital stays for some patients with a heart infection (endocarditis), according to late breaking...

WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 28, 2018) - A strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) found in retail chicken and turkey products may cause a wide range...

DALLAS, Aug. 28, 2018 - Adults ages 45 or older who experience psychological distress such as depression and anxiety may have an increased risk of...

(University of Iowa Health Care) A system designed by a University of Iowa ophthalmologist that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect diabetic retinopathy without a...

Credit: European Society of Cardiology Munich, Germany - 28 Aug 2018: Taking vacations could prolong life. That's the finding of a 40-year study presented today...