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Paracetamol is popular for relieving pain. But if you are pregnant, you should think twice before popping these pills according to the researchers in a...

When an American nurse working in West Africa became ill with Lassa fever and was evacuated to the U.S. for treatment in 2016, it provided...

Bottom Line: From 1999/2000 to 2011/2012, exposure to secondhand smoke among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors declined from 39.6 percent to 15.7 percent, but rates of...

Ann Arbor, MI, June 22, 2017 - Although firearm violence kills or injures 100,000 Americans each year, most scientific research tends to focus on two...

Credit: Brendan Snarr, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal, June 22 2017 - Have you ever heard of biofilms? They are slimy,...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Findings from a phase III clinical trial for advanced lung cancer patients could help oncologists better predict which patients are likely to...

Credit: © 2017 American Society of Hematology (WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017) -- Researchers have developed a two-pronged approach to blood cancer treatment: 1) attacking cancer...

Your doctor is an expert with many years of experience. So when she tells you, upon reviewing all the fancy tomographic imaging you had done,...

Underused cancer test could improve treatment for thousands, Mayo Clinic study finds ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A simple blood test could improve treatment for more than...

Credit: NASA Models of human disease are beneficial for medical research, but have limitations in predicting the way a drug will behave within the human...

Today, a team of investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles launched OncoKidsSM, a next-generation sequencing-based panel specifically designed for pediatric cancers. OncoKidsSM is intended..

Credit: INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE Researchers at Institute for Molecular Sciences reported that a photoreceptive protein expressed in the brain a marine annelid zooplankton (Platynereis...

JCU's Dr Carl Woods and colleagues looked at the performance indicators of winning and losing NRL teams. He says a number of factors stood out....

Credit: UCLA Health HIV-positive women with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, in their urine at the time of labor and delivery are more than five times likelier...

Credit: John Armstrong The elusive behavior of the African leopard has been revealed in great detail for the first time as part of a sophisticated...