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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee has recommended that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines should be made compulsory for all males between the ages of 11 and 21 years. The Advisory Committee on ...

A new study has revealed that home-based dialysis treatments are on the rise in both the developing and developed worlds, but developed countries appear to be turning to them less often. ...

Regular consumption of vitamin and mineral supplements can help reduce risk of colon cancer. ...

A study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) has stressed that combination drug therapy may be needed to combat non-small...

It is widely known that glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common of all malignant brain tumors that originate in the brain. Patients with GBM have a poor prognosis because it is a highly aggressive form of cancer that is commonly ...

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 ...

Researchers have revealed that a number of antipsychotic drugs are known to cause the metabolic side effects of obesity and diabetes. This leaves patients with a difficult choice between improving their mental health and damaging their ...

A new clot-busting pill called rivaroxaban has been found to be much better at preventing strokes while having less potentially fatal side effects, as compared to present-day treatments. ...

Researchers claim to have developed an innovative surgical procedure that helps to repair the severed nerves within minutes, which could help patients to recover within days or weeks. ...

Due to prolonged sitting, without any movements, office workers are more prone to back aches. ...

More than 16 million Chinese women are married to gay men as a very large majority of them are still worried about coming out of the closet, says a new survey. The survey was conducted by Professor Zhang Bei-chuan of Qingdao University who ...

Researchers have suggested that decaffeinated coffee may help improve brain energy metabolism associated with type 2 diabetes. This brain dysfunction is a known risk...

Crystal Warren, the woman who claimed to have slept with 1,000 men, has confessed to once being a man. ...

Experts say that heart disease has killed more women than all forms of cancer combined and is hence more deadlier than cancer for the fairer sex. "One of every three women will die of heart disease," said Donna Arnett, Ph.D., chair of the ...

Vitamin D plays a role in human fertility. Deficiency of vitamin D can cause infertility among women and men.Austrian physicians Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch and Elisabeth Lerchbaum found that low levels of vitamin D often lead to too much ...

A study has found that four out of five people with diabetes are living in developing countries. ...

Movement of poultry and related products from an area in Bhubaneswar has been banned by Odisha government following a bird flu case reported in the city. ...

Tuberculosis patients will soon be able to receive personalized treatment depending upon the version of their `Goldilocks` gene (LTA4H).Scientists from the Oxford University, King`s College London, Vietnam and the US have found that people ...

There is a movement which is underway to change the insurance law, giving California the power to regulate health insurance rate hikes. Consumer Watchdog, a group based in Santa Monica, has proposed an initiative which will make it ...

The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) announced a health insurance scheme called "Guru Harkrishan Health Insurance Scheme" for economically weaker Sikh families. ...

Pop icon Lady Gaga has revealed that she wants to have a baby. However the caveat is that the father of the child must be an Italian and that conception would be through artificial insemination. It is not known how her American boyfriend ...

Child abuse and neglect cases are comparable to expensive health conditions such as diabetes and stroke and cost more than $124 billion in healthcare every year, a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals. ...

A new study conducted by a team of American and Australian researchers has once again underlined the importance of sunlight and revealed that children living in areas which lack sufficient amount of sunlight may have a higher risk of suffering from ...

Research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012 says that common infections in children pose a high risk of ischemic stroke. In a review of 2.5 million children, the researchers identified 126 ...

Osteoporosis, or thinning of bones, could increase the risk of heart attacks, a new study conducted by researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada. ...

A pill made from a protein found in dust mites could revolutionize asthma treatment, according to a research. ...

Alzheimer's disease spreads from one part of the brain to another like an infection, says a new US study. This discovery could aid the development of new treatments to slow its progress. ...

Most of the elderly patients in German rehabilitation hospital were found to be suffering from vitamin D deficiency. ...

Uppsala University researchers have led a recent study that compared the DNA of identical twins of different age. They could show that structural modifications of the DNA, where large or small DNA segments change direction, are duplicated ...