Health

Why do naked mole rats live up to 31 years, when distantly related lab mice are lucky to make it...

Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed eNightLog, a multi-function nighttime monitoring system...

Credit: Public domain Berkeley -- Less-educated African American women who report experiencing high levels of racial discrimination may face greater...

Car accidents, sports injuries, even too much typing and texting can injure the peripheral nerves, leaving people with numbness, tingling...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- For decades, scientists have been trying to develop a vaccine that prevents mosquitoes from spreading malaria among...

Credit: © NUST MISIS For the first time ever, a research team from the small innovative enterprise Biomimetix, implementing several...

Credit: Tim Yates, Photographer, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2018 INDIANAPOLIS - Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Aging...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) honored the Patient Education Team from Penn Medicine's OncoLink...

Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have developed the first...

Credit: UC3M Researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have introduced the Laboratory of Discrimination and Inequality (D-Lab),...

Credit: Lancaster University The largest ever genetic analysis of over one million people has identified 535 new genes associated with...

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN -- African swine fever virus threatens to devastate the swine industry and is positioned to...

In a study of postmenopausal women, participants who lost weight had a lower risk of developing invasive breast cancer than...

Credit: Dr Jake Morris (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) Female guppies with smaller brains can distinguish attractive males, but they...

CHICAGO--October 8, 2018--Long-term oxygen therapy does not decrease the risk for hospitalizations or increase life expectancy for many patients with...

Credit: UK Research Communications LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 8, 2018) - A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center...

Credit: NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer Global average sea-level could rise by nearly 8 feet by 2100 and 50 feet...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients with a history of cancer are less likely to see a cardiologist or fill anticoagulant prescriptions...

In a new study that ultimately analyzed the genomes of nearly a quarter of a million men, a research team...

Credit: Caltech / Shimojo laboratory We experience the world through our senses, a constant torrent of sights, sounds, smells, and...