For infants undergoing cleft palate surgery, local anesthetic injection targeting the maxillary nerve of the face may reduce ...

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Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a ...

A new study finds just 6% of clinical trials used to approve new drugs in the U.S. reflect the country's racial and ethnic ...

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South Carolina health officials say a measles outbreak is growing amid holiday travel and low vaccination rates, and they ...

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A significant Arctic blast expected to hit the U.S. starting later this week will bring the coldest air of the season, ...

Over the past few decades, advances in hematology have illuminated how a delicate balance between stem cell self-renewal and ...