An emerging field, known as implementation science, may help reduce the nearly 150,000 instances of mother-to-child HIV transmissions that occur...

Credit: Keck School of Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – In the quest for a new and more effective treatment...

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Metabolism at The Rockefeller University Stunning three-dimensional images of fat cells, the first of their kind,...

Credit: Sanjay Suchak, University Communications Adding another reason for doctors to avoid the overuse of antibiotics, new research shows that...

Credit: Lisa W. Buser Memphis, Tenn. – A recent study, Race, Preoperative Risk Factors, and Death After Surgery, has found...

Women who have ovarian cancer often develop a condition called ascites, which is a buildup of fluids in the abdomen....

Environmental factors may be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers, leading scientists have revealed. Experts at...

Credit: UEF Over the past couple of years, scientists at the University of Eastern Finland have shown that sauna bathing...

Credit: Joshua Leiberman, University of Maryland Baltimore Group A Streptococcus bacteria cause a variety of illnesses that range from mild...

IMAGE: Researchers sequence the genome of the Lyme-disease-causing tick and find lots of duplicative elements. Credit: Anirudh Dhammi, NC State...

Flaviviruses–such as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever–have emerged as human (and other primate) pathogens because of their ability to specifically...

What if a single vaccine could protect people from infection by many different viruses? That concept is a step closer...

Credit: M. Rohde/HZI Helicobacter pylori is a spiral bacterium that can colonize the human stomach – sometimes with fatal consequences....

Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. – For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily...