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October 1, 2016
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September 30, 2016
Births to U.S. teens reached a record low last year, continuing a dramatic two-decade decline, federal health officials reported.
September 30, 2016
The U.S. Food and Drug Administrationsday approved the first automated insulin delivery system - a so-called "artificial pancreas" - for people with type 1 diabetes.
September 29, 2016
The Region of the Americas is the first in the world to have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause severe health problems, including pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and even death.
September 29, 2016
After Korea added a nationwide dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) program for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled.
September 28, 2016
Over 90 percent of U.S. high school students don't get enough exercise to stay fit and healthy, and the pattern persists after they graduate.
September 28, 2016
A new WHO air quality model confirms that 92% of the world's population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits.
September 27, 2016
UBC researchers have discovered how cancer cells become invisible to the body's immune system, a crucial step that allows tumours to metastasize and spread throughout the body.
September 27, 2016
A new analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NHI) has provided the strongest evidence to date that nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is associated with a lower risk of miscarriage in pregnant women.
September 26, 2016
An experimental DNA-based vaccine protected monkeys from infection with the birth defects-causing Zika virus, and it has proceeded to human safety trials, researchers report.
September 26, 2016
CDC from several states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections.
September 24, 2016
Endurance training changes the activity of thousands of genes and give rise to a multitude of altered DNA-copies, RNA, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report.