Health

ROCHESTER Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified three specific gene types that account for a known two-to-three-fold increase...

Credit: The George Institute for Global Health Young adults classified as obese in Australia can expect to lose up to...

Credit: Virginia Tech Greater access to antibiotic drugs, together with their misuse and overuse, has accelerated the emergence of antibiotic...

DALLAS, Oct. 2018 -- Hispanic infants with critical types of congenital heart disease have worse outcomes in their first year...

Credit: From Jenks Immunity 2018 In the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE, the immune system produces antibodies against...

Early adoption of tobacco control efforts in California lead to fewer people ever smoking, reduced the amount used by those...

The research was conducted by Kazan Federal University, Kazan State Medical University, City Clinical Children's Hospital N 1, and Republican...

Credit: Virginia Tech The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health has awarded...

Boston, MA -- Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with, and to die from, prostate cancer yet recommendations...

Credit: Getty Images LOS ANGELES -- Growth rates of brain circuits in infancy may help experts predict what a child's...

TORONTO, October 10, 2018 - A new study led by York University researchers has found that fluoride levels in urine...

"Ongoing nervousness" about the use of e-cigarettes in stop-smoking services can be a "significant" barrier to people finding support, research...

Credit: Gabriel Haller Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty....

A growing number of people in Australia no longer see themselves as fitting into the traditional boxes of 'man' or...

Credit: University of Houston University of Houston biologist Michihisa Umetani, having discovered that a certain protein partnership acts to rapidly...

DALLAS, Oct. 9, 2018 - A church-based program to encourage a healthy lifestyle lowered systolic blood pressure more than an...

Credit: Lukas Schwingshackl et al. Journal of Lipid Research 2018 If you want to lower your low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, called...

Credit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Communications Children around the world are suffering from unnoticed infections that are stunting...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric researchers studying the life-threatening blood disorder Fanconi anemia (FA) have devised a method to...

Credit: UIC/Sanchez, et. al. New research from the University of Illinois at Chicago shows that cancer cells in the fallopian...