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Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth You are what you eat when it comes to fat, report scientists from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas...

Credit: B. Fairbanks A novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, closely related to human TB, infects and kills banded mongooses through a surprising route — olfactory...

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 20, 2017) – While research has demonstrated the positive impact a woman's social support network and faith community can have...

Credit: Wu et al., 2017 Researchers in China have discovered that a metabolic enzyme called AKR1B1 drives an aggressive type of breast cancer. The study,...

Job applicants who are cancer survivors are less likely to receive callbacks from potential retail employers than those who did not disclose their health history,...

Credit: Victor Cartagena/UCLA FINDINGS Less than half of individuals with peripheral artery disease, which is a narrowing of arteries to the limbs, stomach and head,...

Credit: Rafael Guimarães dos Santos A psychedelic drug traditionally used in South America improves people's general sense of wellbeing and may offer a treatment for...

Chapel Hill, NC – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive nearly $23 million over the next five years to...

Credit: Ken Shindler, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (PHILADELPHIA) – A new therapeutic agent tested in a mouse model of multiple...

Credit: ATS Sept. 8, 2017–People with severe emphysema may breathe better after a minimally invasive procedure that places valves in the airways leading to diseased...

Credit: Swapna Gudipaty SALT LAKE CITY – Research published today in Nature from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah shows...

Johns Hopkins researchers report that an analysis of survey responses and health records of more than 10,000 American adults for nearly 20 years suggests a...

Credit: Courtesy of Zaghloul lab, NIH/NINDS. In a pair of studies, scientists at the National Institutes of Health explored how the human brain stores and...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 26, 2017–Cardiovascular disease remains the main cause of death among women, but evidence-based advances are...

Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to Australia. Long believed to be...