Health

Scrub typhus, a disease transmitted through “chiggers” that kills at least 140,000 people a year in the Asia-Pacific region, may...

An international research collaboration, led by University of Sydney, has found that exercising at even basic recommended weekly physical activity...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) | by AJC1(Thursday, 8 September 2016: Oslo) Prisons provide one of the most significant opportunities to...

SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s Distinguished Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology Richard M. Rosenfeld, MDBrooklyn, NY – In an article in...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers are exploring ways to wrap pig tissue with a protective coating...

Credits: WikimediaANN ARBOR, Mich. — Hospitals that take care of the oldest, sickest and most complicated patients could suffer financially...

Orlando, Florida (September 7, 2016) – Research published in the Journal of Nutrition has for the first time documented the...

Christian Con Yost, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the neonatal intensive...

Jacqueline French, MD, professor of neurology and director of Translational Research & Clinical Trials Epilepsy at NYU Langone’s Comprehensive Epilepsy...

PISCATAWAY, NJ – The more advertising kids see for particular brands of alcohol, the more they consume of those brands,...

After years of studying the effects of near-infrared light on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injuries, a...

A study presented today (6 September 2016) at this year’s European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in London, UK shows...

Despite being a risk factor for kidney cancer, obesity was linked to improved survival Obese or overweight patients with metastatic...

Using a unique computational approach to rapidly sample, in millisecond time intervals, proteins in their natural state of gyrating, bobbing,...

Steven Lipshultz, MD, of Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of MichiganA potent chemotherapy drug can...

Credit: CupeFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Sept. 2, 2016 — A new study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) details the...

Ebola in West Africa Credit: Global PanoramaPotential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately...

Credit: UBCScientists at the University of British Columbia have made a discovery that could potentially lead to treatments for a...

Dr Jolanta Weaver, Senior Lecturer in Diabetes Medicine at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant Diabetologist at Queen Elizabeth HospitalScientists at...

A groundbreaking new study led by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC has identified a new group of...