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Credit: (C) 2017, The Health in Aging Foundation More than 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who are admitted to the hospital are sent to a...

Credit: Maya Tree Mosquito saliva influences transmission of viruses to a bitten mammalian host. For example, it contains factors that dampen the host immune response...

The most frequent strategy used by women forcing men to have sex with them against their will is blackmail and threats, according to researchers at...

Oxford, February 9, 2016 – Reducing the number of men who go to prison could help curb the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted...

WHAT: A viral protein known as NS5 is a promising target for vaccines against Zika and related viruses, according to National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – May 23, 2017 – Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often respond to standard chemotherapy, only to develop drug...

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, lead author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Immunotherapy drugs could help some breast cancer patients based on the genetic changes in...

With the report from Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday that 14 people in the state have been infected with the Zika virus most likely...

HOUSTON, Nov. 13, 2015 – Cyberattacks are no longer a question of if, but when. It's become a regular occurrence to hear of breaches hitting...

Credit: Rylee Murray Hydropower dams may conjure images of the massive Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state or the Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, China...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Standard-of-care treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer includes radiation, chemotherapy and brachytherapy (in which radiation is implanted intern..

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center When University of Colorado Cancer Center researcher, Jing Hong Wang, MD, PhD, found more than 1,000 genetic translocations in...

Credit: NASA Being able to identify microbes in real time aboard the International Space Station, without having to send them back to Earth for identification...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Sepsis is a deadly and quick-moving medical condition, but its presence can be betrayed early on...

Credit: Gena Chattin Tulane University researchers found some monkeys whose immune systems are depleted by the simian strain of HIV have a second line of...