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A study released Monday by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows the potential of transforming a commonly used chemotherapy drug into one that kills cancer cells by activating immune cells when it is paired with anti-inflammatory medication.

A new study shows patients taking Remdesivir — an experimental drug found to work against the new coronavirus — may not need to take it as long as previously thought, suggesting more patients could be treated with it. The international study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found there’s no significant difference between those who were treated…

Coronavirus patients around the world are rushing to join studies of an experimental drug that showed promise against some similar viruses in the past.

As a growing number of Americans are being diagnosed with the coronavirus, doctors are learning more about who may be most susceptible to the most severe complications of the disease, NBC News reports.

It takes an average of about five days for COVID-19 symptoms to show after contracting the virus, while the vast majority of people infected will develop symptoms within 12 days, researchers confirmed in a new report published in the “Annals of Internal Medicine” on Monday.

People are moving out of many northeastern states and Connecticut ranks third among the states people are leaving, according to a study from United Van Lines.

According to a new study in Sweden, owning a dog could help you live longer. Scientists followed more than 3 million adults for 12 years.

More and more Americans are marrying people of different races and ethnicities, reaching at least 1 in 6 newlyweds in 2015, the highest proportion in American history, a new study released Thursday showed. Currently, there are 11 million people — or 1 out of 10 married people — in the United States with a spouse of a different race or...

A new study finds a growing number of young children are being injured while using infant products like carriers, strollers and cribs. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, looked at the number of kids across the country under age 3 who had to go to an emergency room after such an injury. “There’s an average of 128 a...

Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man’s best friend really does understand some of what we’re saying. Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs as they were listening to their trainer speaking to determine which parts of the brain they were using. They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere,...

A little butter isn’t going to kill anyone, but it’s not a health food, nutrition experts said in a study released Wednesday. “I would say butter is neither good nor bad,” Laura Pimpin of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University told NBC News. Many studies look at saturated fat or omega-3 fatty acids or calcium,...

San Diego scientists are among the research team that discovered how and why some sharks glow deep underwater. They used a special “shark-eye” cam to create amazing images in the waters off San Diego.

Excessive selfies by men could be a red flag for anti-social behavior, according to a study.