Health

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – John Lukens recently became the first patient in Pennsylvania to receive MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment...

Many cancer therapies are highly toxic, and even when they appear to work, a significant percentage of patients will experience...

Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO — Regions of the United States with stronger firearm legislation had lower rates of...

Credit: University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 8, 2017) — University of Kentucky...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer With both tourism and casual "hookup" sex on the rise among college-age adults, there's...

Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Presidential action to alter current law risks undermining progress made by Congress, the American...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – During the millions of pregnancies that occur in the United States every year,...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between higher levels of a specific...

A defective gene linked to autism influences how neurons connect and communicate with each other in the brain, according to...

Credit: Richard Ross With his legs outstretched, T. barely fits the diameter of the small animal pen that surrounds him....

A new discovery published in the Nov. 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that cancer cells use previously unknown...

The H5 avian influenza A virus that devastated North American poultry farms in 2014-15 was initially spread by migratory waterfowl,...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Heart attacks provoke an acute immune response. Leukocytes rush to the heart muscle to remove...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that Aric Rogers, Ph.D., has received...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 19, 2017–In the roundtable entitled "Expert Panel on Understanding Cannabis:...

IMAGE: This is an immunofluorescence image of a mature Plasmodium berghei liver stage parasite in murine liver. Credit: Kirsten Hanson...

Credit: n/a TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — During major epidemics, cramped airplane cabins are fertile ground for the spread of infection, but...

Credit: Department of Defense In a Veterans Affairs study of more than 300 enlisted Army National Guard and Army Reserve...

Credit: Louise Cornmark The most aggressive variant of brain tumour – glioblastoma – has an average survival rate of 15...

Dr Jayne Wood from The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 – A new tool to identify...