Excessive crying in babies is an issue for up to one in five families, causing pain for the baby and stress for the parents.
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Acupuncture may be an effective treatment option for babies with infantile colic...
More than 3.5 million workplace injuries and illnesses occur each year in the United States, costing an estimated $250 billion annually.
A new study from The University of Texas at Dallas examined how financing constraints impact workplace safety and the...
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Using archival documents, a new report published online by JAMA Internal Medicine examines the sugar industry's role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the industry sponsored research to influence the scientific debate to cast...
Urban air pollution in the city of Beirut.
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Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health that has released a report detailing the...
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the joints, causing inflammation, pain, and eventually destruction of the tissues that make up this essential body part.
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A research team led by...
AIDS deaths are falling in most countries worldwide, but the rate of new infections increased in several countries over the past decade, threatening to undermine efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, a new scientific paper shows.
The study...
Heart failure in the elderly is set to triple by 2060, according to new data from the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility (AGES) -- Reykjavík study presented at ESC Congress 2016 today.
"Heart failure is a common condition worldwide and increases with...
An experimental vaccine against malaria known as Mosquirix—or RTS,S—weakens over time and is only about four percent effective over a seven-year span, researchers said Wednesday.
The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, are based on a phase...
Although diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease, CVD) kill more people worldwide than anything else, with 17.3 million deaths globally, cancer has now overtaken CVD as the main cause of death in 12 European countries.
New data...
Some ethnic groups experience cancer more often than others. These populations have the five highest incidence rates (cancer cases per every 100,000 people) in the Southland.Credit: Cancer in Los Angeles County: Trends by Race/Ethnicity 1976-2012 (Los Angeles County Cancer...
While most military children grow into resilient adults, they are not always visible to the outside community, the journal reports.
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Since 9/11, the United States has seen the largest sustained deployment of military service men...
