Health

Exposure to high-fat diet from childhood may increase the sensitivity of the dopamine system later in adulthood, according to a...

Dr. John Peever at the University of Toronto has been working to answer one of humanity's greatest questions: how do...

New research challenges established medical practice that all heart attack patients should be on beta blockers. The study -- by...

Quitting methamphetamine use can reverse the damage the drug causes to the heart and improve heart function in abusers when...

Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known...

Montreal, May 29, 2017 - Diabetic patients frequently have lesions on their feet that are very difficult to heal due...

Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too...

ANRS 12286 MOBIDIP(1), a clinical trial running in parallel in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and Senegal),...

The feeling of constantly being on edge, always having to take care of everything, not being able to find a...

The federal government's bill C-45 to legalize marijuana in Canada will jeopardize the health of young people and Parliament should...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method which determines not only whether a chemical or substance is...

First Nations and Inuit babies were hospitalized much more often in the first year of life compared with non-Indigenous babies,...

In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to...

Copenhagen, Denmark: Raising the age limit for routine genetic testing in colorectal cancer could identify more cases of families affected...

Individual neurons can learn not only single responses to a particular signal, but also a series of reactions at precisely...

Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are...

Credit: University of Tsukuba Narcolepsy, a serious sleep disorder in which patients often fall asleep uncontrollably, has been incurable because...

- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published...

Credit: United European Gastroenterology A new study highlights that children suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are not meeting the...

Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) - The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body,...