Health

Funny Thing About Humor: It May Be in Your Genes

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New formulation of HIV treatment to save more children’s lives -- UNICEF and UNAIDS

Children affected by HIV and AIDS will benefit from the decision by the United States Food and Drug Administration to grant approval to a new antiretroviral formulation that can be mixed with food to make it easier for children living with HIV to take...

Blood Test Could Reveal Your Viral History

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Rise in Colon Cancer Screening After Obamacare, Study Finds

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High rates of sexual violence against children: A global problem

Sexual violence against children is a significant problem in many low- and middle-income countries. At least 25 percent of females and 10 percent of males experienced some form of childhood sexual violence in the majority of seven countries studied,...

NIH researchers pilot predictive medicine by studying healthy people’s DNA

A new study by National Institutes of Health researchers has turned traditional genomics research on its head. Instead of trying to find a mutation in the genomic sequence of a person with a genetic disease, they sequenced the genomes of healthy...

Hormone Therapy Doesn't Help Memory: Study

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Scientists Explore Morality's Home in the Brain

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3 in 10 Americans Have Drinking Problem at Some Point in Their Lives

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NIH study finds alcohol use disorder on the increase

Alcohol use disorder, or AUD, is the medical diagnosis for problem drinking that causes mild to severe distress or harm. A new study supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health...