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Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--In humans, developing metabolic disease, particularly type 2 diabetes, is correlated with having bacteria that penetrate the mucus lining of the...

Credit: Rita Valente, IGC. Bacteria "conversation" may be an early trigger for plant pathogens virulence, show scientists from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC, Portugal). In...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, approximately 1.5 million Americans suffer osteoporosis-related fractures each ye..

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- About half of patients diagnosed with high blood pressure will need their medication adjusted within the first year to address side effects...

Credit: Miguel Prudêncio lab, iMM Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal (30 May 2017)--The Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc) in the Netherlands, the Instituto de Medicina Molecular Lisboa...

For some time now, patients in Sweden's emergency clinics complaining of chest pain have been evaluated using the "high-sensitivity troponin T" assay. In a large-scale...

DES PLAINES, IL--Transgender patients feel it is more important for health care providers to know their gender identity (GI) than their sexual orientation (SI), but...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report new evidence that immune cells infected with a latent form of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are able to proliferate,...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2017--Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) sensors are now so accurate that two CGM devices, including...

Childhood trauma is the experience of a highly distressing event or situation during one's youth, which is beyond a minor's capacity for coping or control....

An analysis of billing records for more than 12,000 emergency medicine doctors across the United States shows that charges varied widely, but that on average,...

A majority of displaced adolescent girls are victimized by violence, according to a new study in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia by researchers...

Scientists could be one step closer to developing vaccines against viruses such as Zika, West Nile or HIV, according to Penn State College of Medicine...

WELLESLEY, MA - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has signed two innovative, outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for medicines to treat acute coronary disease and Type II...

The Company has agreed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on plans for the Phase III clinical program, which is designed to support...