Credit: Children's National Health System The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.75 million to a research lab led by...

People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a potentially life-saving...

Credit: © Carla Schaffer / AAAS Dendritic cells represent an important component of the immune system: they recognize and engulf...

Credit: Dorota Kidawa Stress is a factor not only in the best human families; it also appears among animals. To...

Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, September 27, 2017 – Increased arterial stiffness is a known predictor of cardiovascular diseases in different...

Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today...

Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Right now, in any American hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an...

Credit: Siân Owen and Rocío Canals Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Public Health England have used Salmonella genome...

Credit: FDA Sudden cardiac death resulting from fibrillation – erratic heartbeat due to electrical instability – is one of the...

Certain characteristics may increase patients’ risk for needing emergency care Highlights • Risk factors for emergency department visits included younger...

Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute...

Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties....

Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant – richly occurring in broccoli – as a new...

Credit: Damon Meharg/Winship Cancer Institute When cancer cells split off from a tumor to seed deadly metastases, they are thought...

Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2017–A new study ranking the safety and effectiveness of four drugs...

Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. Credit: National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, PA, October 31,...

Credit: Geoghegan JL, et al. (2017) On occasion, a virus may jump from one host species to another and adapt...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Consumption of dietary fiber can prevent obesity, metabolic syndrome and adverse changes in the intestine by...