Health

Credit: Ismail Sergin Researchers have long sought ways to harness the body's immune system to treat disease, especially cancer. Now,...

The global rise in antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, damaging our ability to fight deadly infections...

Credit: Virginia Tech The comfort food we know and love today as the potato was domesticated between 8,000 and 10,000...

Every year, millions of people are treated for cystitis, but despite its prevalence, the disease is still a scientific mystery....

Credit: AltaMed FINDINGS New research finds that brief interventions in a primary care clinic can reduce patients' risky substance use...

Credit: Credit George Rosenwasser, M.D. Results from a large, national clinical trial show that corneal donor tissue can be safely...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The creation and sustainment of "safe spaces" may play a critical role in community-based HIV prevention efforts...

Credit: University of Colorado Boulder Filling the day with natural light and the night with true darkness for as little...

Credit: © Matt Bertone of North Carolina State University SAN FRANCISCO (November 10, 2017) – Humans have lived under the...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – May 8, 2017 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found in a recent...

Credit: Jessie J. Polanco BUFFALO, N.Y. — People with multiple sclerosis (MS) know all too well the frustration of hearing...

Credit: Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University/PNAS Cocaine is one of the most addictive substances known...

Credit: Richner and Himansu et al./Cell 2017 Vaccine developers have successfully protected mice against Zika by injecting synthetic messenger RNA...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI – Immune diseases like multiple sclerosis and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis unleash destructive waves of inflammation on the...

Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University In an ideal world, the newest and most effective drugs for chronic inflammatory conditions would...

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A trio of recent reports has shed new light on U.S. health, with mixed results on obesity, smoking, and blood...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 3, 2017-A large randomized controlled, pragmatic trial involving 1445 patients...

Credit: The Science Bridge Ask professors Izumi Fukunaga and Bernd Kuhn about the birth of a new international collaboration between...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, U.S.A. (Nov. 2, 2015) — After breast cancer surgery, women are prescribed adjuvant (or follow-up) therapies such...