Health

Credit: Society of General Internal Medicine Primary care is "first-contact, continuous, comprehensive, and coordinated care provided to populations undifferentiated by...

Human noroviruses – the leading viral cause of acute diarrhea around the world – have been difficult to study because...

Credit: Jiangping Wu Laboratory, CRCHUM Montreal, February 7, 2017 – The name of the gene is Armc5, for Armadillo repeat...

Credit: Photo by Jim Peck Michigan State University has landed a highly competitive grant from USAID to fight the Zika...

The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 11,300 lives and starkly revealed the lack of effective...

Credit: Nicole Davison/UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 22, 2017 – Sepsis accounts for considerably more hospital readmissions and associated costs than any...

Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Parents often want medical advice when their child gets sick but...

A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is the first in the world to genetically...

When a blunt-force blow injures the spinal cord, the body's immune system can be both friend and foe. Sensing the...

Credit: University of Houston An obesity intervention for Hispanic middle school students led by researchers at the University of Houston...

Credit: Rothamsted Research Jonathan Storkey, Plant Ecologist and Leader of Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST), one of Rothamsted's five strategic...

PHILADELPHIA -In an attempt to correct defects in the energy generation that contributes to poor pump function among heart failure...

Credit: Daniela Cihakova and Nicola Diny A new study in mice reveals that eosinophils, a type of disease-fighting white blood...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 22, 2017) – Directly injecting a tumor with an agent that activates a natural,...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 12, 2017–Why mosquito-borne dengue virus causes more severe disease in...

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2017– Lower thresholds for blood transfusions during cardiac surgery have proven...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Michael Pirrung, a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers studying a DNA-cutting enzyme with a crucial role in regulating the structure of genes...

Credit: Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Science Researchers are one step closer to understanding heart disease at a...

Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New Yor BINGHAMTON, NY- Doctors might be able to better detect any disease or...