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AUGUSTA, Ga. – When a high-fat diet causes us to become obese, it also appears to prompt normally bustling immune cells in our brain to...

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Dec. 12, 2016) — Physical inactivity is a global health problem that leads to approximately 3.2 million deaths each...

Credit: Nicole Hoff Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to...

Credit: Courtesy: Center for BrainHealth A researcher from the Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the Department...

Credit: Hiram College Want to get every perk possible from your power walk? Turn off your cell phone, advises Michael Rebold, Ph.D., assistant professor of...

Credit: Umeå University/PLOS One Researchers at Umeå University and Region Norrbotten in Sweden have studied health trends among women and men aged 25-34 from 1990-2014....

Credit: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa – If your New Year's resolution was to exercise more in 2017, chances are you've already given up or...

The Zika virus, commonly transmitted through a bite from an infected mosquito, is also capable of leaping from person to person through sexual transmission. However,...

Credit: European Patent Office The paper based on the study undertaken by the team of Lithuanian researchers was bestowed Paper of the Year award by...

Credit: Courtesy of Robert Reinhart Robert Reinhart calls the medial frontal cortex the "alarm bell of the brain." "If you make an error, this brain...

Credit: Dr Andrew Turner, University of Plymouth The plastic used in many second hand toys could pose a risk to children's health because it may...

Credit: CWRU While advances in HIV treatment have dramatically improved patient lifespans and quality of life, nagging side effects remain; among the most common is...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 4, 2018–Acute chest syndrome (ACS), a potentially severe lung complication of sickle cell disease, increases...

Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/eLife A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and...

Rochester, MN, June 8, 2016 – The risk of life-threatening blood infections by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is more than doubled in users of systemic glucocorticoids...