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CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Glaucoma, a disease that afflicts nearly 70 million people worldwide, is something of a mystery despite its...

Boston, Mass. -- A research team from Massachusetts Eye and Ear and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown that...

Investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) have developed a simple method to maintain water...

A study led by researchers at Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health...

Even though adolescents make up 26 percent of the population in developing countries, their health claimed a meager 1.6 percent...

A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to...

Credit: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - New research from a team led by Marshall...

Melbourne's Murdoch Children's Research Institute, in partnership with Harvard Medical School, has discovered that adolescent health programs across the developing...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Despite promising advances, important scientific questions remain unanswered in the effort to develop a safe and effective...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable lung disease of...

Bottom Line: Lumpectomy plus radiation was associated with a small clinical benefit in reduced risk of breast cancer death compared...

A new type of bed net could prevent millions of cases of malaria, according to new research published in The...

A recent study published in The European Journal of Health Economics finds that the initiation of potentially inappropriate medication (PIM)...

Men respond to their spouse's illness just as much as women do and as a result are better caregivers in...

Credit: Courtesy of Egor Plotnikov. Autophagy is a process of destruction and processing of damaged cell components by the cells...

Credit: Adam van Casteren Chimpanzees are generally known as the ripe fruit specialist among the great apes but also incorporate...

Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital In the first study of its kind, St. Jude Children's Research...

Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The same way that yeast yields beer and bread can help hospital...

Credit: Rasgon laboratory, Penn State A technology designed to improve CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in mosquitoes and other arthropods succeeds with...

Credit: Trey Sato MADISON, Wis. -- Some chemicals used to speed up the breakdown of plants for production of biofuels...