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CHILDREN WITH AUTISM may struggle with social interaction because their mirror neuron systems are not functioning properly.
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On Sunday's "Good Morning America Weekend Edition," Consumer Reports health editor Ronni Sandroff said that contrary to popular belief, price does not dictate a cream's power.
"There was no correlation between effectiveness and price,&am...
International health experts called on Tuesday for rapid worldwide access to new cervical cancer vaccines that have the potential to save a quarter of a million lives a year.
In a study released in May, scientists at the Broad Institute scanned 20 million “letters” of genetic sequence from each of the human, chimpanzee, gorilla and macaque monkey genomes. Based on DNA differences, the researchers speculated that millions of ye
The disease may be the same for all ages, but everything about having it is different for its younger victims. Unlike older patients who are typically retired, confined to an assisted-living facility, and whose children are grown, young sufferers are in t
Last Friday was World AIDS Day. People across the planet held hands in solidarity against a lethal microbe hellbent on finding a warm human body in which to incubate, replicate, and from which to transmit itself to others. The HIV virus has killed 25 mill
HIV/Aids is having a crippling effect on the workforce of many countries, a report by the International Labour Organization for World Aids Day says.
The ILO said HIV/Aids killed almost 3.5 million people of working age in 2005.
The sections of liver were created using stem cells from umbilical cords by a team at Newcastle University. A more realistic short-term use would be to replace some of the testing on humans and animals of pharmaceuticals.
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