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A researcher at -- in rats. The findings will be reported next month at the Society for Neuroscience meeting.

Men who survive the Oreo threat may face another peril at the breakfast table: Harvard researchers report that a daily serving of a finding reported at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine meeting in Boston.

With the "great shutdown" over survival tales are emerging. CDC director Thomas Frieden told Wired that dealing with the shutdown's effects on his institution was like "."

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that Myriad Genetics' patents on certain genes were invalid, . Previously, Myriad's test was the only one on the market.

Health, like politics, is a local issue and for those interested in making the home town healthier the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) offer this advice:

The perils of promise -- .

Even doctors-in-training have a hard time picking out the , according to Reuters.

A report from the AAFP finds that neither the increase in med students opting for family medicine residencies, nor the uptick in family medicine residency programs, will be enough to .

plays a role in the drugs they're prescribed, according to the Associated Press.

The CEO of Agios Pharmaceuticals wants to