Health

Just as strep throat can run rampant in elementary schools, strangles, the "strep throat" of horses, caused by a different...

Two new analyses of data from more than 10,000 heart attack survivors worldwide were presented by investigators from Brigham and...

ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- Patients with foot ulcers or gangrene who received the experimental drug JVS-100 did not show...

Scientists have linked 110 genes to an increased risk of breast cancer in the most comprehensive study ever to unpick...

One of the recurring media narratives about the nature of science today is that it is "broken" or "in crisis."...

Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (MARCH 12, 2018) -- African-American men successfully lowered their high blood pressure to healthy levels when...

Credit: George Mason University The 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak was the deadliest in history, infecting more than 28,000 people...

Diagnostic and treatment advances are helping patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy--one of nine major types of muscular dystrophy that affects...

Scientists in Cairns (Australia) and Cardiff (Wales) have taken an important first step towards solving two problems that hinder access...

Credit: Professor Paula Murphy, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists have just discovered why babies need to move in the womb to...

NEW YORK (March 12, 2018)-- The need for emergency care in low-income and middle-income countries has never been greater, but...

BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research, University of Western Australia, University of Sydney, and Edith Cowan...

A new study has found that people with dengue fever have a higher risk of stroke, especially in the first...

ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- The experimental drug andexanet was associated with control of serious bleeding in patients taking a...

Credit: Nature Microbiology/Dermody Lab PITTSBURGH, March 12, 2018 - Viruses are intracellular parasites that cause disease by infecting the cells...

Patients receiving care from physicians in primary care networks were less likely to visit emergency departments, according to a new...

WASHINGTON (March 12, 2018) -- Obesity is a problem that affects about 30 percent of the population in the United...

SAN ANTONIO (March 12, 2018) -- A landmark international study of DNA samples from 520,000 individuals worldwide -- including 67,000...

Credit: Michael Hernandez New technology being developed at Washington State University could help save amphibians around the world from a...

For several decades, some researchers have argued that neuroscience studies prove human actions are driven by external stimuli -- that...