Medicine & Health

DURHAM, N.C. -- To the untrained eye, the loops, kinks and folds in the single strand of RNA that makes...

Exploring the mechanisms involved in sleep-dependent memory storage, a team of University of Michigan (U-M) cellular biologists found that RNAs...

In sub-Saharan Africa, 7 million people with HIV live more than 10 minutes from health care services and 1.5 million...

An experimental compound reduced complications of type 1 and type 2 diabetes in mice – not by lowering blood sugar...

With Thanksgiving just a day away — and the most anticipated meal of the year already in the works —...

One in five U.S. adults will experience a mental illness in their lifetime, according to the National Alliance of Mental...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Six years ago, Michael Niederweis, Ph.D., described the first known toxin of the deadly pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis...

Immune cells play a key role in mediating inflammatory responses. Dysregulation in signaling mechanisms that operate across immune cells can...

Experts predict that without intervention, the problem of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections could be catastrophic by 2050, killing nearly 10 million...

Life-threatening bacteria are becoming ever more resistant to antibiotics, making the search for alternatives to antibiotics an increasingly urgent challenge....

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- For deaf people living with HIV, or DPLWH, deafness trumps HIV as a challenge, a University of...

One in five individuals avoided healthcare during lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic, often for potentially urgent symptoms, according to a...

Injections of platelet-rich plasma are no better than placebo for helping reduce knee pain in people with knee joint osteoarthritis,...

A new study has shown that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 is highly random and suggests that the two-metre rule...

Since the detection of the first Sars-Cov-2 infection cases in November 2019, more than 250 million people worldwide have been...

HOUSTON-(Nov. 23, 2021) – A Houston Methodist study showed a rapid return of seasonal respiratory viruses after COVID-19 restrictions were...

CHICAGO – A minimally invasive ablation procedure offers long-term relief for patients who experience chronic and debilitating pain after knee...

CHICAGO – Researchers at Yale University analyzing specialized MRI exams found significant changes in the microstructure of the brain’s white...

JUPITER, FL — Scientists at Scripps Research in Florida have created a collection of new pain-relieving compounds that, like morphine...

Researchers have made important progress towards a new diagnostic test for schistosomiasis, which could help the World Health Organisation (WHO)...