Credit: University of Pennsylvania Named for Friedrich Best, who characterized the disease in 1905, Best disease, also known as vitelliform macular dystrophy, affects children and...
Credit: University of British Columbia Access to gender-affirming surgery has improved in British Columbia over the past couple of years, but transgender people needing to...
Credit: Jonathan Parr Chapel Hill, NC – Hepatitis C virus is a curable infectious disease, but treatment remains unavailable in resource-limited settings like the Democratic...
IMAGE: This is Anat Galor, M.D., M.S.P.H., associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, and the lead author of a groundbreaking study,...
Dual discoveries at USC propose a promising method to regrow nonliving hard tissue, lessening or even eliminating pain associated with tooth decay, which the National...
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (Aug. 10, 2017) – South Asian women in Ontario are at high risk for gestational diabetes, but a change in...
Credit: Photo: Torsten Arpi Today's top-class football is characterised by more short sprints than in the past. In English Premier League, high-intensity running has increased...
Credit: CECAD Cologne Since their discovery in 2006, induced pluripotent stem cells are a glimmer of hope for many diseases. But further research of the...
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Dec. 20, 2016 – A new way to fight multidrug-resistant bacteria by blinding them rather than killing them proved highly...
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL AUG. 14, 2017, AT 10 A.M. EDT ) – Cardiac stem cell infusions could someday help reverse the aging...
Among 526 adolescents and young adults who were asked about their exercise habits, those with asthma tended to report more physical activity than those without...
Credit: UCLA/Caltech A consortium directed by UCLA's Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar has received a three-year, $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to map...
IMAGE: In atherosclerosis, plaque builds up on the inner walls of arteries that deliver blood to the body. Studying mice and tissue samples from the...
Credit: Joan Banks Erica Weber, PhD, of Kessler Foundation is the recipient of a Switzer Research Fellowship, awarded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 14, 2017–A new study describes how NS1, a protein produced by influenza A viruses, suppresses...
