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Treating obesity : researchers identified at least four different patient subgroups
Analyzing data from more than 2,400 obese patients who underwent bariatric weight-loss surgery, researchers identified at least four different patient subgroups that diverge significantly...
How HIV becomes infectious ?
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has been studied extensively ever since the AIDS epidemic was officially recognized by health professionals in the early...
The health of fast walkers declined at a slower rate than those of slower...
During a doctor's appointment, there's a few measures that quickly get a physician up to speed on our current health, such as measuring blood...
FDA : Six artificial flavors are being ordered out of the food supply in...
Six artificial flavors are being ordered out of the food supply in a dispute over their safety, but good luck to anyone who wants...
Tuberculosis researchers have identified a protein that plays an essential role in host defense...
Using freshly resected lung tissue from 21 patients and two distinct mouse models, tuberculosis researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the...
Our ability to do things well suffers when we try to complete several tasks...
Our ability to do things well suffers when we try to complete several tasks at once, but a series of experiments suggests that merely...
Pancreatic cancer’s addiction could be its end – identified a gene called Tumor-Protein 63...
Cancer cells are often described as cells "gone bad" or "renegade."
New research reveals that in some of the deadliest cases of pancreatic cancer, these...
Over the years, researchers have learned that the different populations of bacteria that inhabit...
Over the years, researchers have learned that the different populations of bacteria that inhabit the gut have significant effects on body functions, including the...
There’s bad news for heart failure patients with dilated cardiomyopathy who’d like to stop...
Any progress they've seen on medication is likely to fade once they stop taking their heart drugs, new clinical trial results show.
About 40 percent...
Researchers report on the social and psychological consequences exposure to mass shootings have on...
Mass shootings seem to have become a sad new normal in the American life.
They happen too often, and in very unexpected places.
Concerts,...
Transplanting gut bacteria from healthy donors was used to successfully treat patients suffering from...
For the first time, transplanting gut bacteria from healthy donors was used to successfully treat patients suffering from severe colitis caused by treatment with...
Immune cells called Gamma Delta T cells can act independently to identify and kill...
Immune cells called Gamma Delta T cells can act independently to identify and kill cancer cells, defying the conventional view of the immune system,...
Researchers discovered a loop of physical signals resembling a double-handed handshake that encourages cell...
Ball lands in cup; cup triggers spring; spring clamps lever onto ball and holds it tight. That's a rough description of newly discovered cellular...
Hepatitis C drugs cure more than 90 percent of patients, but can cost more...
Findings from a new study could lead to significant cost savings. Preliminary data from the study, co-led by a theoretical modeling researcher from Loyola...
The diabetes drug Farxiga might do double-duty for patients, helping to ward off another...
The diabetes drug Farxiga might do double-duty for patients, helping to ward off another killer, heart failure, new research shows.
Type 2 diabetics who took...
