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Men and women can seem like they’re from different planets sometimes. Hormones help drive those differences. A new study shows how genes pass on the message.

Researchers have developed a way to direct the body's own stem cells to the outer bone to build new, strong bone tissue. The method, developed in mice, may lead to new treatments for osteoporosis and other bone diseases that affect millions of people.

Acute lung injury patients on ventilators who require a feeding tube have a similar number of ventilator-free hospital days and similar mortality rates if they receive a low-calorie feeding program initially followed by a full-calorie program compared to a full-calorie program right away. These results are part of a new clinical study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.

The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least seven people.

IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano speaks at World Cancer Day 2012 event.

A patient gets his eyes checked for trachoma, one of the 'neglected' diseases, at a clinic in Ethiopia.

The reverses of the 1980s and 1990s signal the fragility of the gains in the war against malaria

A man from Taiwan was found dead after playing a computer game for 23 hours at an internet cafe.

National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may confer its health benefits. The authors present evidence that resveratrol does not directly activate sirtuin 1, a protein associated with aging.

Edna Adan University Hospital, the main health facility in Hargeisa, Somaliland: Somaliland has one of the worst maternal mortality ratios in the world