A recent study finds that how older adults perceive their socioeconomic status influences how old they feel and their attitudes...

Bottom Line: The number of U.S. adults with high blood pressure is estimated to grow by 31 million and the...

Bottom Line: Laws that allow same-sex couples to be denied services are associated with an increase in sexual minority adults...

Bottom Line: Opioid-related adverse drug events were common among patients undergoing surgery and endoscopy procedures in the hospital and they...

Bottom Line: High groundwater concentration of lithium, a naturally occurring trace element, wasn't associated with any benefit in diagnoses of...

Bottom Line: Facial angiofibromas are disfiguring growths and these lesions occur in most people with tuberous sclerosis complex, a genetic...

Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - How does a cell know when to divide? We know that hundreds of genes contribute...

Are your friends very pain tolerant? Then it is likely that you are as well, provided you are a male....

Credit: ReCor Medical, Inc. An operation that targets the nerves connected to the kidney has been found to significantly reduce...

Credit: Swansea University Date: May 23, 2018 - Global pharmaceutical company Sanofi chooses Swansea University Medical School as UK's first...

PHILADELPHIA - A new discovery about how the immune system responds to common sinus infections and asthma could explain why...

Credit: Liran Samuni Studies examining animal alarm calls suggest species which require different escape responses for different predators are more...

Scientists have developed a lab-based system for studying the most common type of liver disease, paving the way for research...

New research from the University of Liverpool, presented at the European Congress on Obesity today (Wednesday, 23 May), highlights the...

CHICAGO (May 23, 2018): A growing partnership between the Military Health System and permanent civilian trauma institutions is well under...

In a Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study that followed 186 children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) for 6...

Credit: Norifumi Shioda Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have investigated an intellectual disorder (ATR-X) syndrome to reveal its cause,...

Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise worldwide. This is becoming a problem for infectious diseases like tuberculosis as there are...

Credit: Lancaster University Checking your phone dozens of times a day indicates unconscious behaviour, which is "extremely repetitive" say psychologists....

**Regional data available for Brazil, China, England, India, Japan, Mexico, and the USA** Healthcare access and quality improved globally from...