Living close to nature and spending time outside has significant and wide-ranging health benefits - according to new research from...

MINNEAPOLIS- July 6, 2018 - The level of communication between patient and physician can make a monumental difference, specifically in...

Credit: NDORMS Researchers at the Kennedy Institute and Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, working...

Bottom Line: A public health approach to address the opioid epidemic in the United States needs to understand the populations...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 6, 2018 - A DNA-sensing enzyme forms droplets that act as tiny bioreactors creating...

Credit: Kessler Foundation A modest downturn for June indicated the end of 26 consecutive months of job gains for American...

Designing new molecules for pharmaceuticals is primarily a manual, time-consuming process that's prone to error. But MIT researchers have now...

Credit: Hojjat Salehinejad/MIMLab Artificial intelligence (AI) holds real potential for improving both the speed and accuracy of medical diagnostics. But...

To determine which antibiotics reliably treat which bacterial infections, diagnostic laboratories that focus on clinical microbiology test pathogens isolated from...

Credit: NIAID National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a naturally occurring lipid--a waxy, fatty acid--used by a disease-causing bacterium...

Washington, DC - July 6, 2018 - Researchers have shown that higher levels of Plasmodium falciparum antibodies are protective against...

AURORA, Colo. (June 26, 2018) - The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and UCHealth announced the naming of the...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Imagine a pathogen that infects completely healthy people and...

Think of the skin as a kind of raincoat for the inner organs. With its densely packed layers of cells...

The arrival of Europeans to the Americas, beginning in the 15th century, all but wiped out the dogs that had...

Credit: Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Laser lights. Electron camera. Reaction. A team of physicists from the University...

WASHINGTON DC (July 5, 2018) - In a study1 published today in PLOS ONE, experts analyzed reams of past food...

Credit: Alice R. Tangerini Originally collected 28 years ago in Ecuador, new species Poa laegaardiana has been just described, only...

Credit: UCF: Karen Norum A team of international researchers has found a link between seasonal fluctuations in sea level to...

With the increased likelihood of extreme weather events and sea-level rise associated with climate change, flooding poses a major risk...