Providing clean injecting equipment through needle and syringe programmes is a highly cost-effective way of preventing hepatitis C (HCV) transmission among people who inject drugs...
Credit: SWOG Cancer Research Network Finasteride, a generic hormone-blocking drug, was found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 25 percent in the landmark...
Credit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) has been awarded a $22 million contract renewal over seven years...
A study by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has strengthened the link between thyroid function and atrial fibrillation (AF), an irregular heart rhythm that...
Gary S. Gilkeson, M.D., of the Medical University of South Carolina was awarded the American College of Rheumatology's Master's Designation, its highest honor. Deanna Baker...
Study at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital found transgender patients had 70 percent lower odds of being screened for breast cancer Patients who identify as transgender...
Study finds those who entered recovery from 2006 to 2015 quit smoking sooner than those entering recovery 20 years earlier Smoking rates among people recovering...
UofL researcher part of international team of scientists, findings published today in Science AdvancesCredit: UofL New science uncovers how an unlikely culprit, Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg)...
Credit: Georgia Tech / Cody Clements Waves of annihilation have beaten coral reefs down to a fraction of what they were 40 years ago, and...
NIH collaborates with African Academy of Sciences and Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationCredit: Photo by Chia-Chi Charlie Chang for NIH Ten African scientists have been...
Women's health helperCredit: UT Arlington A team of bioengineers at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to develop a method that will allow...
NASA hopes to send humans to Mars by 2030 on a round-trip mission that could take up to three years - far longer than any...
A promising drug slows cancer's circadian clock, halts its spreadCredit: USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience A new drug shows potential to halt cancer cells'...
A cancer-killing, virus-based therapy showed promising effects against retinoblastoma - a tumor of the retina that affects mainly children - in mouse models and a...
Credit: Courtesy of UTSA Communications (San Antonio, Jan. 23, 2019) -- According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, over one-third of U.S. adults...
