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If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically may improve your mood. Christie Nicholson reports

 

This expenditure would also give women the choice of smaller, healthier and more productive families, according to a UN report

Everybody and his uncle, it seems, has an idea of something that might work to cure people infected with the deadly virus

The candidate drug will be tested next to see how well it can help prevent infection

The answers to eleven questions help individuals aged 65 years and older determine the risk of a severe to potentially fatal reaction to chemotherapy

Venom molecules could provide alternatives to addictive opiate drugs

Taking control of cells by squeezing them

(n.) A human antibody produced by plants

When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data indicating that such transfusions work.

The world has finally reached "the beginning of the end" of the AIDS pandemic that has infected and killed millions in the past 30 years, according to a leading campaign group fighting HIV

The latest outbreak in humans represents not just the most recent but also most deadly among several incidents dating back to 1976

Statins, prescribed to lower cholesterol and reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes, seem to diminish inflammation that occurs after people breathe airborne particles