Health

Children urge world leaders to include them in push on water, sanitation and hygiene

Some 60 children and young people told the International High Level Conference on Water for Life here that the world’s youth must be fully engaged in the effort to bring safe and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene to the most disadvantaged on...

Stroke Ages Brain by 8 Years, Study Finds

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Widespread Vaccination Fights Serious Stomach Infection in Kids: CDC

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FDA Advisers Recommend Approval of First of 2 New Cholesterol Drugs

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A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies

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NHGRI scientists are homing in on specific genes in zebrafish to help them better understand the function of genes in...

WHO and the Republic of Korea to carry out joint mission for the MERS-CoV outbreak

In light of the recent outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), WHO and the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare will conduct a joint mission in the Republic of Korea. The mission comes after close...

Safety Precautions Help Prevent Summer Camp Injuries

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Poison Ivy's Gonna Get Ya...

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Potential Liver Recipients May Have New Option

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A new role for zebrafish: larger scale gene function studies

A relatively new method of targeting specific DNA sequences in zebrafish could dramatically accelerate the discovery of gene function and the identification of disease genes in humans, according to scientists at the National Human Genome Research...