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Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Label information on many hookah tobacco products is misleading and may be misinterpreted by consumers, according to new...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers from the Charles E. Schmidt College...

Credit: Photo by Cecilia Hedström. Out with the cigarette pack, put a cigarette in the mouth and light up. That is a well-known action for...

Credit: Washington University School of Medicine Although 29 states and the District of Columbia allow marijuana use for medical purposes, few medical students are being...

Credit: Nature MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Birds of a feather flock together but they schedule parenting duties differently, according to a Kansas State University researcher. Brett...

Credit: Sarah Pack No words can describe how happy Quanita Estell is to hear her six-year-old son come home with hilarious stories to tell. First,...

Credit: Kris Hanning, UAHS BioCommunications TUCSON, Ariz. – After showing that individuals who take levodopa, or l-dopa, for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease are...

Credit: Qu et al., 2017 Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that the metabolic enzyme phosphoglycerate mutase 1 (PGAM1) helps cancer cells...

Credit: The Journal of Pediatrics Boston, MA– Unintentional injury is the leading cause of pediatric death in the U.S. and motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2017 — People talk all the time about how they need to "detox." And there's a line...

Credit: Western University, London, Canada A 10-minute, one-time burst of exercise can measurably boost your brain power, at least temporarily, researchers at Western University in...

Credit: Figure adapted by Meredith Cassuto, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, from the cover of The human genome is packaged into chromatin, which is composed of...

Credit: CC0 License People who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those with...

Norovirus is the most common viral cause of diarrhea worldwide, but scientists still know little about how it infects people and causes disease. Research has...

Credit: Center for Disease Control As cold winter weather approaches, millions of people look for remedies to avoid the flu. Yet influenza outbreaks equally affect...