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Credit: John McMahon, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — Microcephaly is a rare disorder that stunts brain development in utero, resulting in an abnormally small head....

Credit: Saige Kelmelis During the Middle Ages, nearly everyone in Europe was exposed to the disfiguring, painful and ostracizing disease of leprosy. But did contracting...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators across the nation, have determined that magnetic resonance...

Credit: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health About 15 million Americans will have either Alzheimer's dementia or mild cognitive impairment by 2060, up from approximately...

Credit: Ana Junqueira and Stephan Schuster Flies can be more than pesky picnic crashers, they may be potent pathogen carriers, too, according to an international...

This news release is available in French. Youth violence undermines social and economic development, especially in the poorest corners of the world, according to research...

IMAGE: This is Jeffrey Hunger. Credit: Sonia Fernandez Fit or fat? How about both? In what could be the death knell for that once-vaunted measure...

Credit: NTU Singapore A new approach to reducing bulging tummy fats has shown promise in laboratory trials It combines a new way to deliver drugs,...

Credit: Daniel L. Kober Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have detailed the structure of a molecule that has been implicated...

DURHAM, N.C. – The process cells use to secrete chemicals also appears to be the way to clear urinary tract infections, or UTIs, according to...

IMAGE: The researchers traced the cell divisions that occur as hair follicles form in mice to determine where stem cells first emerge. Above, developing hair...

Credit: Dr. Robb Glenny, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UW Medicine New research comparing cystic fibrosis patients in the United States and Canada...

Chen Zhongwei, the retired Director of Oral Health at Guangdong General Hospital in China, was attacked this spring and killed by a patient whom he...

Credit: Houston Methodist A new study shows that a 70-year-old malaria drug can block immune cells in the liver so nanoparticles can arrive at their...

Credit: Credit: A. Smitthimedhin, et al, Clinical Imaging. Infants born preterm have significantly lower nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal volumes, compared with newborn peers carried to full...