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Researchers from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with other universities and institutes in Edinburgh, France and Italy, have for the first time been able to show exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's breast, it starts a chain of events that leads to surges of the "trust" hormone oxytocin being released in their mothers brains. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Drugs that have helped treat millions of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers may hold the key to many more medical conditions, including atherosclerosis - a leading cause of heart disease - says the researcher who jointly invented and developed them. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)

Scientists have made a step towards understanding how genes and the environment influence social behavior by learning about the numbers and types of genes that control social organization in fire ant colonies. These results are published in an article released on July 17, 2008 in the open access journal PLoS Genetics.

For patients with active, early stage, moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis, a combination treatment with methotrexate and etanercept can improve remission and radiographic non-progression rates within one year in comparison with just methotrexate. Additionally, more patients are also able to remain employed.

A leading NHS (England) cardiothoracic surgeon has performed a challenging valve operation, watched via High Definition Medical Conferencing by over 40 other leading surgeons from around the world in a post graduate centre at a university campus in West London.

The U.S. government has declared it's OK to eat tomatoes again, lifting its salmonella warning amid signs that the outbreak ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its nationwide warning to consumers on Thursday, saying that agency officials believed it was now safe to eat all types of fresh raw tomatoes bought in the US, as this was most unlikely to be the cause of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that has so far infected over 1,000 people nationwide since April this year.

Distinguished medical experts in the burgeoning field of interventional therapies for congenital and structural heart disease will gather in Las Vegas July 20-23 for the Pediatric & Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS/AICS). Specialists from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago will perform live cases utilizing advance technologies during the course of symposium.

UroToday.com - A study out of the Mayo Clinic by Dr. Timothy Roth, et al. evaluated sacral neuromodulation for dysfunctional elimination syndrome whereby they evaluated the InterStim® implantable device for the management of chronic urinary complaints in children.

Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's Children's Research hospital in Memphis have figured out how some dying cells signal the immune system.