Health

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Research teams, including one led by biostatistician Nicholas Reich at the University of Massachusetts...

Credit: University of Utah Health SALT LAKE CITY – Air pollution trapped by winter inversions along Utah's Wasatch Front, the...

Credit: Courtesy Wladek Minor Zinc is essential for wound healing, for vision, for DNA creation, for our senses of taste...

Credit: UNLV Photo Services A groundbreaking study by UNLV researchers shows that taking placenta capsules has little to no effect...

A newly published, Canadian government funded study documents how a simple, inexpensive effort to send short, informative text messages regularly...

Credit: University of British Columbia Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia, has long been assumed to originate in the...

A new and inexpensive technique for mass-producing the main ingredient in the most effective treatment for malaria, artemisinin, could help...

Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS — In a paper published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, Saint Louis University...

Mobile phone use during pregnancy is unlikely to have any adverse effects on child neurodevelopment, according to new research published...

Credit: Lars Bahl The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of DKK 35 million for a Collaborative Research Programme...

Credit: Kessler Foundation EAST HANOVER, N.J. May 16, 2017 – John DeLuca, PhD, Senior Vice President for Research and Training...

Credit: University of Kent A research team at the University of Kent has established the first long-term cultivation system at...

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Scott Wolfe, MD, chief emeritus of the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at Hospital for...

Credit: Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) Dec.8, 2016 – As many as a quarter of all older adults discharged from an acute...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital has received a $146,000 research project...

Credit: University Hospitals CLEVELAND – A 39-year-old man with cystic fibrosis (CF) made history by becoming the first person in...

Scientists have identified a new "multicomponent" virus — one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles — that...

Credit: Jamie Kidston, ANU A landmark new study shows the benefits of an expanded treatment strategy for intestinal worms –...

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI – The majority of Americans over age 50 take two or more prescription...

IMAGE: ATS President Atul Malhotra, M.D. Credit: ATS The American Thoracic Society applauds President Barack Obama and the Administration for...