Health

Why are bats often linked to incubating coronaviruses such as those behind COVID-19, SARS and other highly contagious respiratory diseases? A...

CHAPEL HILL, NC – When all else fails, some patients trying to overcome alcoholism, severe depression or anxiety, and even...

WHAT: In a presentation today at AIDS 2022, the 24th International AIDS Conference in Montreal, scientists with the National Institute...

Since COVID-19 emerged, scientists worldwide have sequenced more than 6 million genomes of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind the disease. Today,...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA —  The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) has published new NCCN Guidelines for Patients®: Breast Cancer Screening and...

Getting children closer to green spaces as they grow up could improve their lung health, according to a study published...

Access to quality healthcare depends on the accurate evaluation of social determinants of health (SDOH), but the healthcare industry has...

Researchers in San Francisco and New York have proposed a health equity framework to address growing disparities in the uptake...

Public health researchers in Canada developed an interactive, web-based guide to help family physicians better address a wide range of...

Better diagnosis and treatment of the incurable eye disease age-related macular degeneration is a step closer, thanks to the discovery...

AMHERST, Mass. – In a major new development in the quest to develop better gene therapies with which to treat...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Black adolescents who lived in poverty and were less optimistic about the future showed accelerated aging in...

After a traumatic event, people with decreased activity in the hippocampus experience worse PTSD symptoms, according to new research published...

New research led by scientists at Arizona State University has revealed some of the first detailed molecular clues associated with...

In their study, the research groups looked at a protein called Creld. A study from Bonn had recently been able...

LA JOLLA, CA—Scripps Research Professor Chi-Huey Wong, PhD, has been awarded the 2022 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis...

Nearly 6 percent of children who presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with COVID-19 reported symptoms of long COVID 90...

A first-of-its-kind sprayable coating that can prevent the surface spread of infection from bacteria and viruses  - including COVID-19  -...

LA JOLLA, CA—For a glimpse into the future of SARS-CoV-2 immunity, scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are...

Like a microscopic bucket brigrade, an artificial microtubule can rapidly transport tiny particles along magnetic stepping stones, delivering them to...