Health

April 6, 2026

Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 25, 2018) - A daily dose of baking soda may...

New breath and urine tests detect early breast cancer more accurately

NEW YORK April 25, 2018 - A new method for early and accurate breast cancer screening has been developed by...

New UA research study aims to predict and prevent deadly disease in premature infants

Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences A new $1.9 million grant at the University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center...

Napping can help tired teens’ performance in school

Credit: University of Delaware/Photo Illustration by Jeff Chase A University of Delaware researcher investigated the relationship between midday-napping behaviors and...

Scientists unearth vital link between fat, immunity and heat regulation

Credit: Lydia Lynch, Trinity College Dublin Scientists have just made a surprising discovery involving fat and special immune cells that...

Surgery recovery program slashes opioid use, benefits patients, cuts costs, study finds

Credit: UVA Health System A special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients developed and implemented at the University of Virginia...

Millennials aren’t getting the message about sun safety and the dangers of tanning

Credit: Oliver Day, Oregon State University BEND, Ore. - Many millennials lack knowledge about the importance of sunscreen and continue...

A non-coding RNA lasso catches proteins in breast cancer cells

Credit: Evgenia Ntini A Danish-German research team has shown that not only the where and when of long non-coding RNA...

Land use and pollution shift female-to-male ratios in snapping turtles

Credit: Bill Hopkins Most of us know that our biological sex is decided by the pairing of X and Y...

Study identifies overdose risk factors in youth with substance use disorders

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has identified factors that may increase the risk of drug overdose in...

ESCEO-IOF Pierre Meunier Young Scientist Award presented to Dr. Emmanuel Biver

Emmanuel Biver MD, PhD, of the Division of Bone Diseases Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine has been presented...

In Huntington’s disease, heart problems reflect broader effects of abnormal protein

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers investigating a key signaling protein in Huntington's disease describe deleterious effects on heart function,...

Brain activity linked to stress changes chemical codes

Credit: UC San Diego Five years ago, a team of University of California San Diego neurobiologists published surprising findings describing...

Music lessens pain and anxiety in patients undergoing surgery

Music can reduce the anxiety and pain of invasive surgery, according to an analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials...

Leading genetics study method may need reconsideration, significant distortions discovered

Many conclusions drawn from a common approach to the study of human genetics could be distorted because of a previously...

What can a tasty milkshake teach us about the genetics of heart disease?

From 2002 to 2005, about 800 people in Minnesota and Utah drank more than 1,500 milkshakes, and they got to...

Commonly prescribed heartburn drug linked to pneumonia in older adults

Researchers at the University of Exeter have found a statistical link between pneumonia in older people and a group of...

Rheumatology leaders respond to Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance proposed rule

Washington, D.C. - In comments submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the American College of Rheumatology...

What if you could know that your mild cognitive impairment wouldn’t progress?

(IOS Press) Researchers from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon found that, in some mild cognitive impairment patients,...

Managing chronic pain with light