Category: Health

Measuring waist size may be one of the simplest and most effective ways to detect obesity-related health risks, according to a study by Rutgers Health

Swansea University researchers have led major European study investigating how socio-economic circumstances influence survival among children born with major congenital anomalies.

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) mainly affects premature and low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns and carries poor outcomes once surgery is required.

Men who have had the procedure can expect 10-20% more girth for the next six to nine months – but it can go wrong.

Biologic medicines have transformed the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, migraine, inflammatory disorders and many other diseases.

Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental

Researchers at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a role for the youth-associated protein TIMP2 in supporting the healthy function of

Brain stimulation can produce very different effects at different moments, even when the stimulus is delivered the exact same way.

Bedbugs are on the rise and they tend to be at their worst at this time of year

A brain must constantly cope with the highly variable, fast-paced nature of the world when trying to judge what’s going on around it.

Three minutes of sprinting can do something that 90 minutes of moderate exercise apparently cannot: dramatically reshape the molecular contents of the bloodstream.

An experimental treatment, gantenerumab, failed to help people at high risk of memory loss from Alzheimer’s or those who were in the early phases of

Even before their daughter was born in June, Aaron and Helen Chavez knew she would need heart surgery. Doctors expected her to have an operation

A research project at UiA is working to combat one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases. A mobile app has now been developed to