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July 18, 2016
The current Zika epidemic in Latin America is likely to burn itself out within three years, suggests new research.
July 18, 2016
In a surprising discovery that raises fundamental questions about human behavior, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine found that the immune system directly affects and even controls social behavior.
July 16, 2016
A new type of HIV drug currently being tested works in an unusual way, scientists in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, a collaboration between EMBL and Heidelberg University Hospital, have found.
July 16, 2016
The atomic structure of an elusive cold virus linked to severe asthma and respiratory infections in children has been solved by a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Purdue University.
July 15, 2016
Non-Europeans have a higher frequency of the gene variants that increase the risk of lupus as compared to the European population.
July 15, 2016
Bacteria are rapidly developing resistance mechanisms to combat even the most effective antibiotics.
July 14, 2016
Men, that excess weight can drive you to an early grave. The study of 3.9 million adults found that being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of premature death as the risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and cancer are all increased.
July 14, 2016
Sustaining a concussion during adolescence may be more common than previous estimates, according to researchers presenting their study at the American Orhopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in Colorado Springs, Co.
July 13, 2016
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Roche's cobas HPV Test as the first diagnostic to be used with cervical cells obtained for a Pap test and collected in SurePath Preservative Fluid.
July 12, 2016
Scientists may have overcome a major roadblock in the development of Alzheimer's therapies by creating a new technology to observe — in the back of the eye — progression of the disease before the onset of symptoms.
July 12, 2016
Children who are thumb-suckers or nail-biters are less likely to develop allergic sensitivities, new research has found.
July 11, 2016
Health officials in Arizona say the largest current measles outbreak in the United States is in part because some workers at a federal immigration detention center refuse to get vaccinated.