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December 15, 2016
Nearly 200 patients in Latvia might have received blood donated by a person who is thought to have hepatitis C, Latvian Radio reported citing LETA.
December 15, 2016
Drug use among U.S. teens is at an all-time low, says finding from a new survey by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
December 15, 2016
Scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that the mosquito-borne virus can replicate itself thousands of times in both fetal brain cells and the placentas of pregnant women.
December 14, 2016
Rural U.S. communities are seeing a surge in infants experiencing opioid withdrawal at birth because of widespread drug abuse by pregnant women, a new study finds.
December 14, 2016
Women who generally believe that good things will happen may live longer. That's the suggestion of a new study that seems to affirm the power of positive thinking.
December 13, 2016
An international team led by researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and the Technion Integrated Cancer Center (TICC) has discovered a biological pathway that plays an important role in tumor development.
December 13, 2016
Higher blood levels of a specific heart disease protein are associated with brain damage, a new study suggests.
December 12, 2016
E-cigarettes are now the most popular tobacco product among American teens, according to a new U.S. Surgeon General's report that calls for a crackdown on the devices.
December 12, 2016
In women with a certain form of tough-to-treat breast cancer, treatment with a combination of two drugs appeared to keep the cancer at bay longer - from about five months to 10, a new study says.
December 10, 2016
As of early November, only about 2 out of 5 people in the United States reported having gotten this season's flu vaccine.
December 10, 2016
Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are on the rise but its underlying mechanisms are poorly understood.
December 9, 2016
An anti-cancer vaccine made from a leukemia patient's own cells can dramatically increase the chance of long-term survival against the deadly disease, a new study indicates.