After decades of intense focus on genetics, the biomedical research community is undergoing a major shift, focusing o ...

Under current screening guidelines, almost two-thirds of Americans with lung cancer would not have qualified for the CT ...

Exome sequencing can identify individuals who are genotype-positive for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), accordi ...

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Patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) treated at a specialized clinic have improved outcomes, with med ...

Common health problems of old age — dehydration, delirium, malnutrition or falls — can become catastrophic if they occu ...

A new gene-editing strategy may one day help many people with rare genetic diseases.In a new study published Wednesday ...

New guidelines recommend doctors tackle Crohn’s disease head-on, calling for the use of cutting-edge drugs as early a ...

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For decades, car safety tests were built around the body of an average man from the 1970s. Now, federal officials are ...

For individuals exposed to contaminated drinking water, reduced arsenic exposure is associated with lower mortality fr ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated a webpage about vaccines and autism, changing lan ...