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The first evidence-based diagnostic criteria have been developed to help health professionals better diagnose temporomandibular disorders (TMD), commonly known as TMJ, a group of often-painful jaw conditions that affect an estimated 10 to 15 percent of Americans. The diagnostic criteria, developed by researchers in North America, Europe and Australia, are professional recommendations on how best to detect a disease or condition.

The accumulation of age-associated changes in a biochemical process that helps control genes may be responsible for some of the increased risk of cancer seen in older people, according to a National Institutes of Health study.

A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) illuminates important trends – many positive -- in Americans' behavioral health, both nationally and on a state-by-state basis.

Uganda epidemiologists collect virus samples from the field, to test for deadly Ebola virus.