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George Mason University researchers have patented a new breast cancer treatment that uses a common malaria drug to stop cancer in its beginning stages. Chloroquine,...

Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Sept. 29, 2017 – UNC School of Medicine cardiologist Anil Gehi, MD, will use a $1.7...

Credit: Freeman, A.M. et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;69(9):1172-87. WASHINGTON — Nutrition researcher Neal Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C., president and founder of the nonprofit Physicians...

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS — Are patients less likely to be hospitalized if emergency departments have access to their complete medical record via health information...

Credit: Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University/Science When most cells divide, they simply make more of themselves. But stem cells,...

Credit: Michigan Medicine Patients who complain they can't hear their friends at a noisy restaurant, but pass a hearing test in their doctor's office, may...

Surgical castration to remove the testicles (orchiectomy) of men with metastatic prostate cancer was associated with lower risks for adverse effects compared with men who...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have made the first direct demonstration that fecal donor microbes remained in recipients for...

SEATTLE–Mailing yearly stool kits–an alternative to the often-dreaded colonoscopy–has helped Group Health to boost rates of lifesaving screening for colon cancer, according to new research...

Credit: National Library of Medicine Dr Chaney, a historian of human emotion, said: "It was in the late Victorian era that people began to make...

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University/PNAS Cocaine is one of the most addictive substances known to man, and for good...

Credit: Bischoff lab/Boston Children's Hospital Three-dimensional modeling and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology are giving scientists a new view into Sturge-Weber syndrome, a rare congenital ..

IMAGE: Ephraim Tsalik, M.D., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of medicine at Duke Health Credit: Duke Photography DURHAM, N.C. — When a child comes home...

IMAGE: Funerary stele of the priest Rom(a) about 1400BC shows the withered limb and down-flexed foot of poliomyelitis. This artifact is in the Carlsberg ny...

Credit: NANO Journal Researchers from PSG College of Technology, India have developed nano-contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as well as optical imaging of...