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A brain scan could help identify those at risk of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), say scientists.

A discovery by scientists may help reduce the risk of people with diabetes losing a limb.

Womb chemicals of overweight mothers raise the risk of their baby being obese, research suggests.

(American Association for Cancer Research) Researchers have determined a novel mechanism through which organ transplantation often leads to cancer, and their findings suggest that targeted therapies may reduce or prevent that risk.

Obese women with most of their excess weight on the stomach, are more likely to get pancreatic cancer, research suggests.

Mothers-to-be who eat nuts every day may increase their child's risk of developing asthma by 50%, claim researchers.

(University of Nottingham) Researchers at the University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer -- a rare form of prostate cancer which affects about 10 percent of all men diagnosed with the disease.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A trio of experimental drugs has doctors hopeful that for the first time in decades, millions of people at risk of lethal blood clots may soon get easier treatment....

Teenage girls who are sexually active and those who are not eventually all have the same risk for infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV), new research suggests.

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