Credit: Brigham and Women's Hospital Are healthy and unhealthy habits contagious? Can a person's social network influence their risk of ...

A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) ...

Machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence, could be a useful tool for predicting how well people at high risk ...

(University of Birmingham) The University of Birmingham has been awarded £1.9 million through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) ...

In 2014, the first child to have been gestated in a donated uterus was born. Although research into uterus transplantation ...

Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could ...

Using sugar molecules researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new vaccine for hay fever that may reduce ...

Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have ...

Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace ...

As if lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease weren't enough, there's more bad news for cigarette smokers. Researchers at the ...

PHILADELPHIA - A compound secreted in the bloodstream could be the key factor that causes wounds in older people to ...

Credit: UBC Okanagan The Sherpa people of the Himalayas have long been recognized for their unique ability to excel physically ...

Credit: QUT: Anthony Weate QUT Professor Martin Sillence, from QUT's School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, said a new ...

The long-chain compounds perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) are the most commonly examined substances in the subgroup of ...

Credit: Credit: Paul Stamets In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns ...

Credit: Jonathan Giacomini, NC State University With bee populations in decline, a new study offers hope for a relatively simple ...

Credit: Tim Schoon, University of Iowa Imagine a situation where one child is teasing another. While the child doing the ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth's most critical natural resource. One way to ...

Uncultured microbes--those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture--could be ...

Credit: Carrie Rosema Recently, a research team led by Maurizio Pellecchia at the University of California, Riverside, discovered a way ...