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When Jackson T. Wright Jr. MD, PhD, began practicing medicine in the 1980's, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in...

Credit: NIAID While rare, some people experience recurrent episodes of anaphylaxis–a life-threatening allergic reaction that causes symptoms such as the constriction of airways and a...

The “friendly” bacteria inside our digestive systems are being given an upgrade, which may one day allow them to be programmed to detect and ultimately...

Facebook can have positive and negative effects on teens levels of a stress hormone, say researchers at the University of Montreal and the Institut universitaire...

Credit: University of Kansas | KU News Service LAWRENCE — A research lab at the University of Kansas School of Engineering and School of Pharmacy...

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Genetic analysis of samples collected as the Zika virus (ZIKV) spread throughout the Americas after its introduction in 2013 or 2014 has...

Credit: Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine Neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are on the...

Credit: Penn Nursing (PHILADELPHIA) October 25, 2016 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is funding a project to investigate a personalized web app that...

It has been claimed that a treatment for female infertility will be available by stem cell therapy. But a new study by Swedish researchers from...

Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Varied diets and persistence in exposing infants and children to healthy foods, even when they don't...

Credit: Keith Weller A five-year effort across the Johns Hopkins Health System to reduce unnecessary blood transfusions and improve patient care has also resulted in...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia When is it appropriate to treat short children with growth hormone? The answer is not always clear-cut, as many parents...

Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New Yor BINGHAMTON, NY- Doctors might be able to better detect any disease or disorder that involves inflammation thanks...

The Zika virus strain circulating in Brazil was shown to be able to infect and cause damage to mice fetuses. In stem cell cultures of...

Credit: Monash university Monash University researchers have revealed the role played by an enzyme that is pivotal to the process of clearing infection in the...