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Many cancer therapies are highly toxic, and even when they appear to work, a significant percentage of patients will experience a relapse after only a...

Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO — Regions of the United States with stronger firearm legislation had lower rates of Emergency Department (ED) visits for...

Credit: University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 8, 2017) — University of Kentucky researchers have observed a significant...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer With both tourism and casual "hookup" sex on the rise among college-age adults, there's an urgent need for gender-sensitive...

Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Presidential action to alter current law risks undermining progress made by Congress, the American people, and a cadre of...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – During the millions of pregnancies that occur in the United States every year, expectant moms learn oodles about...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between higher levels of a specific kind of air pollution in...

A defective gene linked to autism influences how neurons connect and communicate with each other in the brain, according to a study from Washington University...

Credit: Richard Ross With his legs outstretched, T. barely fits the diameter of the small animal pen that surrounds him. Clad in an orange jumpsuit,...

A new discovery published in the Nov. 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that cancer cells use previously unknown channels to communicate with one...

The H5 avian influenza A virus that devastated North American poultry farms in 2014-15 was initially spread by migratory waterfowl, but evidence suggests such highly...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Heart attacks provoke an acute immune response. Leukocytes rush to the heart muscle to remove dead cells and begin building...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that Aric Rogers, Ph.D., has received a grant of $455,000 over...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 19, 2017–In the roundtable entitled "Expert Panel on Understanding Cannabis: Medicine, Society, Government," the panelists...

IMAGE: This is an immunofluorescence image of a mature Plasmodium berghei liver stage parasite in murine liver. Credit: Kirsten Hanson Kirsten Hanson, assistant professor of...