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A Michigan State University urologist has discovered that riding a roller coaster helps patients pass kidney stones with nearly a 70 percent success rate. Credit:...

A new biomarker has identified known and unknown exposure to second-hand smoke and confirmed a strong association to increased mortality in non-smokers, according to a...

Scientists are making the case that a vaccine against rhinoviruses, the predominant cause of the common cold, is achievable. The quest for a vaccine against...

People who are too frightened of flying to board an airplane, or too scared of spiders to venture into the basement, can seek a kind...

Knowing when to hold them, and when to fold them, is a critical skill in professional gambling. But it’s also pertinent for cells assessing DNA...

Iron nanoparticles can activate the immune system to attack cancer cells, according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine....

Researchers have built a three-dimensional map of the anthrax toxin that may explain how it efficiently transfers its lethal components into the cytoplasm of infected...

Increasing the concentration of specific fats in the brain could suppress epileptic seizures. This is evident from ground-breaking research carried out by the research groups...

Too much dietary zinc increases susceptibility to infection by Clostridium difficile — “C. diff” — the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections. Eric Skaar, Ph.D.,...

Sight, touch and hearing are our windows to the world: these sensory channels send a constant flow of information to the brain, which acts to...

Mice placed on a low-calorie diet are less likely to develop abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to a new study in The Journal of Experimental Medicine....

Increasing stomach fat — especially the “hidden fat” in your abdomen — is associated with newly identified and worsening heart disease risk factors, according to...

If you survive cancer at young age, then you have a higher risk of becoming unemployed and economically dependent than others, a Norwegian study shows....

Survival rates for elderly patients who received stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) rose from roughly 40 to...

A new analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has provided the strongest evidence to date that nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is...