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Taking vitamin D supplements may lower children's risk of respiratory infections, according to a new study.

Self-awareness is the product of pathways that are spread throughout the brain, according to a new study.

Weight-loss surgery can significantly reduce the incidence of overweight people who develop type 2 diabetes, new research indicates.

For six months last year, a deadly outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria kept infection-control specialists at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in a state of high alert.

Statins don't raise the risk of pancreatitis, a painful and potentially life-threatening inflammation, a new review finds.

Infants who receive antibiotics before they're 6 months old may have a higher risk of being overweight later in childhood, a new study finds.

Dr. El-Sayed, who is a co-principal investigator of a Cancer Nanotechnology Platform Partnership held jointly by Georgia Tech and Emory University, and his colleagues have synthesized gold nanorods that target tumor-associated macrophages.

African swine fever reaches northern Russia. FAO is concerned as pig disease jumps from southern Russia to the Baltic.

Secondhand smoke impairs children's vital cough reflex, a new study suggests.

People with a parent or sibling who died young from heart disease have a much higher risk of developing early heart disease themselves, a new Danish study indicates.