Health

PHILADELPHIA -- Blood platelets shore up open wounds and help cuts heal, but they can also cause heart attacks and...

The children's well-being is usually one of the biggest concerns when a couple gets a divorce. Scientists at the universities...

Cancer -- the second leading cause of death in the United States -- claims more than 600,000 lives each year....

A quarter of adults with autism who use developmental disability services are not working or participating in other structured activities...

A UCLA study characterizes, for the first time, brain differences between people with a specific genetic risk for schizophrenia and...

Listening to music together with others has many social benefits, including creating and strengthening interpersonal bonds. It has previously been...

Credit: Photo by Faith Hark LA JOLLA, CA - May 24, 2017- With mosquito season looming in the Northern Hemisphere,...

Credit: Kvon et al./Cell 2016 Snakes lost their limbs over 100 million years ago, but scientists have struggled to identify...

Credit: BIDMC BOSTON – Conventional medical wisdom has long held that placebo effects depend on patients’ belief they are getting...

Scientists have discovered a new way to look for ageing cells across a wide range of biological materials; the new...

MAYWOOD, IL – As demand for the widely used blood thinning drug heparin continues to grow, experts worry of possible...

Credit: David Wendell A University of Cincinnati scientist has engineered an environmentally friendly technology to zap outbreak-causing viruses and bacteria...

In a recent study conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Harvard Medical School, running in minimalist...

In the amphibian world, the axolotl is the replacement-parts king. This is the axolotl, a remarkable model organism capable of...