Category: Health

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

Glycoprotein VI, or GPVI for short, is a surface receptor found exclusively on platelets and their precursor cells, megakaryocytes in the bone marrow.

Outfitting cells in “invisibility cloaks” may offer an easier, less damaging treatment pathway for people with diabetes undergoing cell therapy, according to researchers at Penn

Some people can carry bacteria in their nose or throat without getting sick, but can spread it to others.

Bone healing is a complex process that depends on the coordinated activity of many different cell types.