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Nearly 18 percent of patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis before being referred to two major Los Angeles medical centers for treatment actually had been misdiagnosed with the autoimmune disease, a new Cedars-Sinai study found.

Researchers investigating repair mechanisms in spinal cord injury have found that a specific type of neuronal feedback from sites below the injury plays a crucial role during early recovery and for maintaining regained motor f​unctions.

A new study has shown that dogs can use their highly evolved sense of smell to pick out blood samples from people with cancer with almost 97 percent accuracy. The results could lead to new cancer-screening approaches that are inexpensive and accurate without being invasive.

Candida auris, a yeast infection that is resistant to multiple antimicrobial drugs, presents a serious global threat.

Scientists have developed a new imaging technology to visualize what cells eat, which could aid the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer.

A pioneering blood test that can detect up to 90% of cases of endometriosis looks for tiny DNA fragments in the blood, and could spare women needing to undergo keyhole surgery to diagnose the condition.

New research has revealed how the famous tumour suppressor gene p53 is surprisingly critical for development of the neural tube in female embryos.

Progress has been made towards developing a vaccine for the Epstein-Barr virus, a herpesvirus that causes infectious mononucleosis and is associated with certain cancers.

Using a small wire that is one-fourth the size of a human hair, the researchers developed a sensor that can detect as few as 10 antibody molecules within 20 minutes.

Four protein markers associated with the pre-cancerous forms of colon cancer may serve as useful biomarkers.