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North Carolina has launched a Web site to help the state's bars, restaurants and hotels to kick the smoking habit for good.

Great news for chocolate lovers, eating a small, 1.6-ounce bar of dark chocolate every day is good for you.

The researchers developed a computational method that compares how similar the structures of all known drugs are to the naturally occurring binding partners -- known as ligands -- of disease targets within the cell.

Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, according to a pair of studies appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology .

OTCBB : SCII ) and its soon to be subsidiary, Histostem Ltd. of South Korea , announced that they recently supplied hematopoietic stem cells to The Queen Mary Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, China, for treatment of Leukemia patients.

Mission Bay Drive, the short, stubby road connecting Seventh and Berry streets across the Caltrain tracks, opened on Oct.

As the H1N1 flu virus spreads at breakneck speed, a team of local scientists are close behind.

If worms are any indication, all the sugar in your diet could spell much more than obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs.

A tumor detected by molecular breast imaging, right, was not found in a mammogram.

Many people say they eat more when they are under stress. Others eat less. But people under chronic stress are more likely than others to say they eat fattening foods and feel that their eating is out of control, according to a study presented at a recent meeting of the Obesity Society.

Two families, a university, and the law enforcement community are mourning the loss of a decorated campus police officer, the best friend of the campus public safety dispatcher who barely survived an early morning accident after ending his swing shift.

The fall harvest, Thanksgiving and the holiday season are often the perfect time for a grocer to generate awareness of the hunger that faces many in our communities.

The University of California at Berkeley will be at the forefront of a new national effort to have physical scientists and engineers join the war on cancer thanks to a $15.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.

At its most benign, the autoimmune disease scleroderma can discolor parts of the skin of its sufferers.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, $15.7 million over five years to allow physical scientists and engineers to open a new front in the war on cancer.

Princeton University physical scientists will partner with researchers at four other institutions to explore the driving forces behind the evolution of cancer under a five-year, $15.2 million award from the National Cancer Institute.

From the Center for Cerebrovascular Research , Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and the Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology , University of California, San Francisco, Calif.

Antigenics today announced that the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco , has presented an update on a Phase 2 clinical trial of Oncophage for recurrent high grade glioma at the 2009 Joint Meeting of SNO and AANS/CNS Section on Tumors 2009 in New Orleans, LA.

Drug developer Antigenics Inc. said researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reported positive results stemming from a study using its cancer therapy Oncophage to treat brain-cancer patients.