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More than 80 percent of people with identifiable genetic risk for breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer are unaware of the situation, a study found....Read More

A minimally invasive procedure significantly reduced heart failure risk among those patients with valves that don’t properly connect in the heart....Read More

Online diabetes programs and ones administered in person were just as effective in weight loss, according to study....Read More

More than one in 20 deaths worldwide is alcohol-related, a new analysis by the World Health Organization showed....Read More

For the first time, researchers have bioengineered human esophageal tissue entirely from pluripotent stem cells....Read More

A study has revealed a potential explanation for the failure of drugs for Alzheimer’s disease in clinical trials, and researchers may have identified a clinically approved drug that could actually succeed at slowing the condition....Read More

Drugs derived from an active ingredient in marijuana produced only modest increases in pain threshold and tolerance but no reduction in ongoing intensity....Read More

Health crises including child mortality rates and tuberculosis, already affecting millions of people, are expected to worsen by 2030....Read More

Differences in the first microorganisms that arrive in the gut after birth, and their order of arrival, have a lasting impact on how gastrointestinal system looks later in life....Read More

A Zika virus successfully killed off human glioblastoma brain cancer stem cells transplanted into mice, according to a study....Read More