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Credit: le-Ming Shih Using gene sequencing tools, scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of British Columbia have found a set of genetic mutations...

Credit: CDC/ Judy Schmidt acquired from Public Health Image Library College Park, Md. – African American adults are less likely than Whites to get an...

Bioengineer Todd Coleman, from the University of California, San Diego, has been named one of 100 outstanding individuals for 2015 by The Root, a premier...

Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO – To the growing list of reasons why mothers should consider breast-feeding infants, add another: Critical white matter...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College...

New Haven, Conn.–For the first time, research shows that a type 2 diabetes drug significantly reduces hospitalizations and death from heart failure. The findings, from...

Credit: Joao Ribas, Brigham and Women's Hospital Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is an extremely rare genetic condition that causes premature and accelerated aging. Recently, researc..

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI – The majority of Americans over age 50 take two or more prescription medicines to prevent or treat...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Results of a national study led by public health scientist Elizabeth Evans at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with...

Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 10, 2017) – A new book will provide a definitive guide to the findings from cutting-edge clinical research on...

Feeling tired? Even if we aren’t tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts at the University of Nottingham have published research that...

Credit: McGill University and Masahiro Morita, Ph.D. Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show limited ability to cause cancer...

Credit: NIAID People infected with Ebola virus were 20 percent more likely to survive if they were co-infected with malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites, according to data...

Researchers at Gothenburg University have developed a reference method for standardized measurements that diagnose Alzheimer's disease decades before symptoms appear. The method has now formally...

Credit: The Canadian Light Source (CLS) A team of researchers from McGill University has advanced the scientific understanding of abnormal mineral accumulation in arteries, a...