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Prostate Cancer: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatments
Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in men: Almost 240,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year.
New hope for infertile men
Men’s skin cells were turned into immature sperm thanks to a new technique that could put an end to male infertility.
Reducing just six risk factors could prevent 37 million deaths from chronic diseases over 15 years
Reducing or curbing just six modifiable risk factors -- tobacco use, harmful alcohol use, salt intake, high blood pressure and blood sugar, and obesity -- to globally-agreed target levels could...
Stress Reduction May Help Women Get Pregnant (Op-Ed)
If you want to improve your chances of getting pregnant, reducing stress may help.
New combination therapy developed for multiple myeloma
Each year, more than 25,000 Americans are diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that often develops resistance to therapies. However, researchers are reporting promising results from laboratory...
Staying power of HIV-fighting enzyme figured out
Biochemists have figured out what is needed to activate and sustain the virus-fighting activity of an enzyme found in CD4+ T cells, the human immune cells infected by HIV. The...
Malnutrition during pregnancy may affect the health of future generations
New research reveals how environmental factors in the womb can predispose not only the mother's own offspring but also the grand-offspring to metabolic disorders like liver disease. Researchers found for...
Hyperfractionated radiation therapy improves local-regional control for patients with head, neck cancer
Patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck treated with hyperfractionated radiation therapy experienced improved local-regional control and, with patients censored at five years, improved overall...
Standard assessments miss early signs of cardiovascular disease in firefighters
Traditional first-line checks of such heart disease risk factors as cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking habits aren't nearly good enough to identify cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy, young firefighters, according...
Noncombat injury top reason for pediatric care by military surgeons in Afghanistan, Iraq
Noncombat-related injury -- caused by regular car accidents, falls and burns -- is the most common reason for pediatric admissions to US military combat hospitals in both Iraq and Afghanistan...
Compounds that control hemorrhagic viruses identified
Compounds that could reduce the ability of viruses that cause diseases such as Ebola, rabies, HIV and Lassa fever to spread infection have been identified and developed by veterinarian scientists....
'Remodelling' damaged nuclei: Discovery could lead to new treatments for accelerated aging disease
Scientists have identified a key chemical that can repair the damage to cells which causes a rare but devastating disease involving accelerated aging. As well as offering a promising new...
Spinal cord neurons that control skilled limb movement identified
Two types of neurons that enable the spinal cord to control skilled forelimb movement have been found by researchers. The first is a group of excitatory interneurons that are needed...
Age, general health, antidepressant use linked to eye disorders
Abnormal binocular vision, which involves the way eyes work together as a team, increases dramatically as we age, according to research. The study also found a correlation between this condition,...
Pain management training for doctors faces funding issues
It took more than seven years of lobbying, but the first two residents in Canada's first accredited pain medicine program will begin their training this July at Western University's Schulich...
Visually impaired N.L. kids try out skating, hockey
A group of visually impaired kids, some of whom had never before been on skates, took part in a skating and hockey workshop at Twin Rinks in St. John's on...
Baby Wyatt Scott's family overwhelmed by worldwide support
The family of a 10-month-old baby born with an extremely rare disorder that prevents him from opening his jaw, making it difficult to eat and breathe, say they've been overwhelmed...
Figuring Out The Mystery Of Thalidomide
In the 1950s and 1960s, pregnant women with morning sickness were often prescribed thalidomide. Shortly after the medicine was released on the market, a reported 10,000 infants were born with...
I Don't Quit Smoking Because Being Fat Is Worse
While smokers are the primary addictive personality it remains okay to demonize, obesity is not far behind. And if smokers tried to quit before and gained weight, they are less likely...
3 Rules Of Thumb To Reduce Childhood Obesity
There are three simple family-oriented rules of thumb to overcome childhood obesity. They basically involve limit setting to address the brain's "get more" drive strengthened through habitual over-consumption of temptations...
Falls also problem for middle-aged with arthritis
NEW YORK (AP) -- A new study shows falls are just as much of a problem for middle-aged adults with arthritis as they are for older...
Brain, cognitive reserve protect long-term against cognitive decline, MS researchers find
MS researchers have found brain reserve and cognitive reserve confer long-term protective effect against cognitive decline. In this study, memory, cognitive efficiency, vocabulary (a measure of intellectual enrichment/cognitive reserve), brain...
New molecule links asthma, cancer; could aid in developing new treatments
A newly discovered molecule provides a new drug target for controlling both asthma-induced muscle thickening and cancerous tumor growth. This molecule, called "microRNA-10a," normally helps genes produce proteins or make...
Killing Kindlin-3 to cure breast cancer: 'Blood' protein implicated
A protein believed to be limited to the hematopoietic system, called Kindlin-3, has been identified as a major player in both the formation and spread of breast cancer to other...
Experimental drug prolongs life span in mice
Scientists newly identified a protein's key role in cell and physiological aging and have developed an experimental drug that inhibits the protein's effect and quadrupled the lifespan in a mouse...
FDA approves first-of-a-kind sleep apnea implant
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sleep deprived Americans have a new option to address hard-to-treat nighttime breathing problems: a first-of-kind device that keeps airways open by zapping them...
UK's oldest settlement confirmed
A Wiltshire town is confirmed at the longest continuous settlement in the United Kingdom.
Scripps Florida Scientists Awarded Grant to Develop New Diagnostics for Cancer, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Colitis
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have been awarded a $2.3 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of...