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Dying at Home Brings More Peace Without More Pain, Study Finds

Patients and loved ones found greater comfort spending final days together in familiar place.

The choice to die at home, rather than in a hospital, provides great comfort to both the patient and their loved ones, a new British study says.

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UNICEF and WHO ready to support immediate polio vaccination campaign in Ukraine

Six weeks after the polio outbreak in Ukraine, UNICEF and WHO have stepped up calls for an immediate first round of nationwide polio vaccination.

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Sensitive Blood Test May Help Rule Out Heart Attack

Researchers say goal is to reduce hospital admissions, medical costs.

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Sex May Boost Female Immune System to Aid Fertility

Effect appears to work regardless of when in a woman's cycle sex occurs, study finds.

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Popular Antioxidant Seems to Spread Skin Cancer Cells in Mouse Research

But link between N-acetylcysteine and melanoma progression needs more study.

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NIH Grantees Win 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Breastfeeding Support Improves in Many U.S. Hospitals

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More Hospitals are using a majority of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding

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Hormone Replacement May Protect Women's Kidneys, Study Suggests

But the finding is considered preliminary and needs more study.

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Rehab May Not Help After Broken Ankle: Study

Australian review shows no benefit, but a U.S. orthopedic surgeon disagrees.

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Scientists test new gene therapy for vision loss from a mitochondrial disease

NIH-funded study shows success in targeting mitochondrial DNA in mice

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Dr. John Guy and colleagues added a homing signal to a virus in order to deliver the ND4 gene into mitochondria. A marker for the gene is shown in red and the ND4 protein is shown in green, inside retinal ganglion cells in the mouse eye. The nuclei of retinal ganglion cells are shown in blue.