A study testing the latest experimental HIV vaccine has been stopped after an independent review board found that it did not prevent HIV infection and did not decrease the amount of HIV in the blood. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced that they will stop giving doses of this experimental vaccine...

Researchers have found that viewing sexually explicit content on the internet or in magazines as a teenager does not influence sexual behavior as much as people think, according to a new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine. It was believed by many that viewing sexually explicit content could have a negative impact on the sexual behaviors of teenagers...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just announced the development of a new hand-held device, called CD-3, capable of detecting substandard or counterfeit anti-malarial medicines. Malaria is a life threatening mosquito-borne infectious disease that kills more than 660,000 people around the world each year...

Women who delay treatment for breast cancer are less likely to survive, and this is especially observed in African-Americans, Hispanics, and those of low-income...

Examining a newborn's placenta for abnormalities can identify the child's risk for autism, according to a new study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine...

Congress delegates heard this week about a study that showed the deadly effect that high alcohol intake and excess body weight can have on women's chances of developing and dying from chronic liver disease. The researchers analyzed data from over 107,000 women across the United Kingdom to find out how weight and alcohol consumption affect the liver...

Yet another study, by the same US research team, links raised risk of heart attack and stroke to the action of gut bacteria on certain compounds contained in digested food. This time the link is to a compound found in eggs: lecithin...

Drinking one 12oz sugary soft drink a day can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 22%, according to a new study. The study was conducted by researchers from Imperial College London, UK, who used data from the InterAct consortium and was published in Diabetologia. The majority of past studies on this subject have taken place in North America. A previous U.S...

3D mammograms could provide significant improvements in cancer detection and decreasing false positives when used in collaboration regular 2D mammograms, according to a new study by a team of Italian and Australian researchers...

Harvard Medical School has just announced plans to close down its New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC) over the next two years due to "high financial costs". The research center recently underwent a thorough investigation following the death of four monkeys, upon which inspectors identified significant violations of animal welfare rules...

When menus present them with how many minutes of brisk walking it takes to burn off the calories contained in different food options, people tend to choose lower calorie meals. These were the findings of a new study presented at the Experimental Biology 2013 meeting in Boston on Tuesday...

The risk of cancer is 15% higher in 9/11 responders compared to the general population not exposed to Ground Zero, according to a new study. The research was conducted by Mount Sinai Hospital's World Trade Center Health Program and was published in Environmental Health Perspectives. Almost 21,000 rescue and recovery workers who worked at Ground Zero were analyzed in the report...

Most Americans are now breathing cleaner air, however, some are still living in cities that are more polluted than they were a decade ago, a new report reveals. The finding came from the American Lung Association's annual report "State of Air" that examines air quality across the U.S by measuring levels of ozone and small particles in the air in over 1,000 cities from the years 2009 to 2011...

American health care spending has significantly slowed down over the past few years, with some of the lowest rates of growth in over 50 years, according to a recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Altarum Institute. Between 2001 and 2003, health care spending in the U.S. was increasing at an annual rate of 8.8%...

Researchers have found that pregnant women who take the drug valproate (for epilepsy) could be at an increased risk of giving birth to a child with autism, according to a new study published in the journal JAMA...

Misdiagnosing patients or making diagnostic errors is one of the most costly and dangerous mistakes made by doctors in the U.S., resulting in up to 160,000 deaths per year. Johns Hopkins researchers have reviewed over 350,000 malpractice claim payouts in the U.S over the past 25 years...

New research from the US finds that otherwise healthy young adult college students who regularly binge drink, that is consume a lot of alcoholic drinks in a short space of time, show damage to blood vessels similar to that caused by high blood pressure and cholesterol, both factors known to increase risk for heart disease later in life. Senior author Shane A...

Cracking of joints, also referred to as "popping", is a form of joint manipulation that produces a popping or cracking sound, as may occur during knuckle-cracking, a deliberate action. People can crack several joints in their bodies, including the hips, wrists, elbows, back and neck vertebrae, toes, shoulders, feet, jaws, ankles and Achilles tendon...

There is not enough evidence to support suicide screening for all teens and adults, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). The Task Force posted a final evidence report and draft recommendation statement after analyzing existing research and discovering that there is insufficient data to recommend screening to everyone...

As United States hospitals deal with the constant need to cut expensive costs of care, some are choosing "unlawful" deportations of illegal patients in order to save money, according to a new report by the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall University School of Law and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest...