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Thousands of men are afflicted with an embarrassing and painful condition that triggers spontaneous, long-lasting erections.

Chestnut Hill, Mass. (October 30, 2009) — The rise of social media and real-time advocacy have re-written the community outreach rules companies followed for decades.

Infrared imagery from NASA’s Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon Mirinae’s cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the central and northern Philippines on October 30 at 4:53 p.m.

DETROIT — The race of kidney donors may affect the survival rates of transplant recipients according to a study by Henry Ford Hospital.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 30, 2009 — A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most

A husband and wife team of American paleontologists has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana.

A collaborative research team from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Australian Animal Health Laboratory and National Cancer Institute, a component of the National Instit

While detailed contracts can foster trust between parties, there needs to be flexibility in negotiating potential changes, according to research recently published in MIS Quarterly.

A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies.

Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species.

PHILADELPHIA, P.A., October 30, 2009 — MedImmune announced today it will present four abstracts at the 47th Annual Meeting of Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) being held here October

Although declining streamflows and half-full reservoirs have gotten most of the attention in water conflicts around the United States, some of the worst battles of the next century may be over groundw

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that a highly specific intrabody (an antibody fragment that works against a target inside a cell) is capable of stalling the

According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy¬, a mismatch between patients’ abilities to understand healthcare information and providers’ abil

HONOLULU – October 29, 2009 — Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced new study results on INTUNIV? (guanfacine) Extended Release Tablets, a

Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this wee

For decades, climate scientists have worked to identify and measure key substances — notably greenhouse gases and aerosol particles — that affect Earth’s climate.

Every year, scientists learn something new about the inner workings of lightning.