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Imagine the distress of waiting in a stalled checkout line, the bathrooms at the back of the store, when your bowels begin to rumble and ...

A genome is a mind-boggling amount of information. Researchers have labored for decades to order and identify more than 3 billion base pairs of DNA ...

Survivors of prostate cancer often live in fear of their cancer coming back. Physicians and patients alike know that early detection is crucial for beating prostate ...

Mayo Clinic allergist Hirohito Kita, M.D., is a medical detective who's long been on the trail of a type of white blood cell called an ...

When a woman undergoes testing for the most common breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, it is usually because she wants to know if she ...

A lifelong basketball player and coach who tops out at 6 feet 6 inches, Michael P. Fautsch, Ph.D., understands the importance of applying pressure defense ...

While some would like to drape the mantle "The father of pharmacogenomics" on Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., the scientist parries: "The only thing that I'm father ...

X-rays have been a medical tool for more than a century. The exquisite details of CT scans have offered unique views of the inside of ...

Miroslav Dlacic's heart attack changed his life drastically — and seemingly forever. His damaged heart made him too tired to work in his garden or ...

For more than 60 years, Robert Kyle, M.D., has catalogued patient histories, archived blood samples and observed a vast number of people with plasma ...