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August 8, 2018
With summer returning, outdoor activities like camping and hiking will be part of the fun for many Americans. Unfortunately, that also means the risk of Lyme disease, which is most commonly spread through tick bites.
August 7, 2018
There is growing concern over the presence of polio in Papua New Guinea, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says.
August 7, 2018
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that they have successfully created spinal cord neural stem cells (NSCs) from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) that differentiate into a diverse population of cells capable of dispersing throughout the spinal cord and can be maintained for long periods of time.
August 6, 2018
The Afghan Public Health Ministry, with the support of World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children\'s Fund (UNICEF), launched a nationwide five-day campaign on Monday to give immunity vaccination dose to 9.9 million children under the age of five, the ministry said in a statement.
August 4, 2018
A heated debate about genders is underway, and it shows something very disturbing: schools and common sense totally failed in the western world.
August 3, 2018
Dengue and Zika viruses are closely related and carried by mosquitos. In infested subtropical and tropical areas, dengue transmission often precedes Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, suggesting that women who previously acquired dengue immunity may be bitten by ZIKV-carrying mosquitoes during pregnancy.
August 3, 2018
The U.N. children’s agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida.
August 3, 2018
A clinical trial recently showed that nearly half of individuals with type 2 diabetes achieved remission to a non-diabetic state after a weight-loss intervention delivered within 6 years of diagnosis.
August 2, 2018
More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have solved a mystery that has lingered ever since the dangers of the drug first became apparent: how did the drug produce such severe fetal harm?
August 1, 2018
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and their colleagues are a step closer to developing a broadly effective antibody treatment against the three major Ebola viruses that cause lethal disease in humans.
August 1, 2018
Individuals with defects in copper metabolism may soon have more targeted treatment options thanks to a discovery by a research team led by Dr. Vishal Gohil of Texas A&M AgriLife Research in College Station.
July 31, 2018
A gene that\'s associated with an autoimmune form of hair loss could be exploited to improve cancer immunotherapy, suggests a new mouse study by Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) researchers.