Health

More than a quarter of otherwise healthy six-year-old children may have metabolic risk factors that put them at increased risk...

There just aren't enough kidney transplants available for the millions of people with renal failure. Aside from a transplant, the...

Credit: Photo: Bob Demers/UANews After proving surprisingly beneficial in human clinical trials at the University of Arizona for the treatment...

For obese and overweight patients, it is common for various surgical procedures to be deferred until they have lost weight...

Credit: Cleveland Clinic October 17, 2018, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic's Genomic Medicine Institute, is receiving...

Credit: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Physicians are encountering a growing number of younger patients who are testing positive...

In a survey-based study of 9,449 university students at a large, public Midwestern university, misusers of prescription opioid medications were...

Credit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati When treatment is working for a patient who is fighting cancer, the light at the...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. October 17, 2018. Researchers have proposed a conceptual framework for examining the relationship between...

In a study of 15 patients affected by major depressive disorder and complaining of insomnia, initiating treatment with vortioxetine for...

Credit: (Photo: Markus Breig, KIT) Investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases give rise to big data volumes. Their systematic analysis...

Credit: Bansal et al., PLOS Computational Biology, October 2018, available under CC BY license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The architecture...

In a survey-based study of 21,889 adults in Canada, severe and/or frequent physical abuse during childhood and frequent childhood exposure...

Credit: American Cancer Society ATLANTA - October 17, 2018 - The American Cancer Society will bestow its highest honor -...

Credit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine The Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) at the University of Illinois at Chicago has received...

NEW YORK (October 16, 2018) -- Washing contaminated hospital bedsheets in a commercial washing machine with industrial detergent at high...

Residents receiving care in for-profit nursing homes are almost twice as likely to experience health issues caused by substandard care...

LUGANO-MUNICH, 16 October 2018 - Supportive and palliative care should be an integral part of cancer treatment, the European Society...

Credit: Biodesign Institute At first glance, Down syndrome (DS) and Alzheimer's disease (AD), two severe brain abnormalities, may seem to...

Laughter plays an important role in romantic relationships - whether or not it's shared together or directed at the significant...