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A funding gap at Planned Parenthood has been filled by donors after a major breast-cancer charity pulled its support for the nation's top abortion provider. ...

A disaster management plan for hospitals, which could help them meet the challenges when handling injuries sustained in major terrorist incidents, has been presented by Indian researchers. ...

Governments should tax sweetened drinks and food as part of their efforts to combat the dangers to health posed by sugar. So says a commentary, published on Thursday in the journal Nature as part of a widening debate among doctors and ...

A new study has suggested that between 2000 and 2009, the musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound volume increase among non-radiologists was much higher than among radiologists. ...

Routine HPV vaccination for males aged 11 to 12 years and catch-up vaccination for males aged 13 to 21 has been recommended by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). These are just two of the changes to the 2012 ...

A video of a little girl cutting her cancer-fighting mother's hair has becoming popular on YouTube.Sara aged 44-years was diagnosed with breast cancer last September. She started losing her hair following chemotherapy treatment. Sara ...

The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center’s investigators’ report has defined the role of a recently keyed gene abnormality in a lethal form of lung cancer....

Intake of coffee may reduce the risk of advanced fibrosis in people with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), ...

Scientists have shed light on the manner adopted by superbugs such as MRSA that are capable of getting resistant to treatment with antibiotics....

Development in early childhood can influence bone density in adult life, according to New Delhi Birth Cohort study....

When protein beta-amyloid in the brain that is linked to Alzheimer's disease is at high levels, it may affect brain performance even in healthy adults,...

It’s a common experience when it takes a little while for our hearing to be restored after listening to our iPods too loud or attending a raucous concert....

Researchers have now found a cell-permeable peptide, which obstructs a hepatitis C virus protein and bars viral replication that can cause liver cancer and cirrhosis....

Someday Neuroscientists may be able to heed to the steady, internal soliloquy trotting through our minds or attend to the illusory speech of a stroke or a confined patient with speech inability state researchers at the University of California, Berkeley....

New research based on autism in adults reveals that adults with an additional intense learning disability have a higher probability of possessing autism....

Researchers have found the clue behind some unexplained strokes. ...

Media reports indicate that it may not be far away when human skin can resist a speeding bullet. An artist named Jalila Essaidi has designed a new futuristic tissue, which reinforces human skin cells with spider silk, and can stop a ...

A novel mechanism through which the brain may become more reluctant to function as we grow older has been revealed in new research led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of ...

A way to block a second wave of death that can result from pneumonia treatment has been identified by a team of international researchers. Antibiotics are effective at...

A new study published in the journal Psychological Studies once again warned of social networking addiction and suggested that social networks may be as addictive as a cigarette or alcohol. The study was conducted by researchers from the ...

An elderly man in Taiwan was declared dead at a hospital due to accidentally swallowing his dentures after having sex with a 62-year old prostitute. The 74-year old man,...

Human speech is processed in an utterly different part of the brain than researchers have long supposed, claims a new study....

Age-related lag in neural timing are avoidable and can be forestalled or offset with musical training, suggest researchers....

The development of a medicine for patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, based on autoantigen GAD65, received a setback following crucial clinical phase 3 trials that failed to show significant effects. One possible explanation may be ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton may well direct with their research to devise more effective drugs to fight malaria....

Pakistan has shut down leastwise temporarily a pharmaceutical factory accused of manufacturing medicine supposed to have taken the lives of over 100 heart patients, an official said on Thursday....

A Mayo Clinic research has found that the risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increases among children below 3 years of age if they undergo two or more surgeries involving general anesthesia. The researchers analyzed ...

The risk of addiction to a substance may be inherited after a group of researchers from the University of Cambridge found that the siblings of addicts had the same brain abnormalities that made them difficult to exert self control. The ...

While a number of studies have shed light on the benefits of resveratrol, a compound found in red wine and dark chocolate, a group of American researchers are taking a second look in order to find how the compound actually affects the biological work...

Researchers have said that a new gadget that controls high blood pressure by playing music could be an alternative to pills to help thousands of patients. The device - which looks like a portable CD player - slows down breathing by playing ...