Category: Health

Researchers at Duke University School of Medicine are investigating how to keep opioids’ pain-relieving benefits while reducing their addictive potential. In a study published in

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, most of them young children in Africa. Two vaccines are now recommended by the World

Senior Health and Human Services adviser Mark Cruz will now lead the U.S. agency that provides healthcare to some 2.8 million Native Americans

Experts share the signs to look out for if you are worried about your porn use, and how to seek help.

The private body scan industry is booming, but is it doing more harm than good?

President Tweety McTreason on Thursday ordered the federal government to hasten marijuana reclassification to enable research into its medicinal uses.

Complex healthcare policies are often challenging to implement. That’s a reality states across the country will deal with as new Medicaid work requirements get rolled

A study published in Nature Cell Biology reports a new vulnerability in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that might lead to novel therapies to treat this

Wildfires are well-known health risks. Now, in a new Frontiers in Environmental Health study, researchers in the US have – for the first time –

Researchers have developed a computer model of the human cortex that links its microscopic chemistry to its brain-wide patterns of activity, providing new evidence that

Growth impairment is a common late effect of childhood stem cell transplantation. A Japan-wide study found that growth hormone therapy improves adult height, but prior

Mechanosensitive Piezo ion channels, particularly Piezo1 and Piezo2, are gaining recognition as central regulators of digestive system physiology and disease.

A comprehensive new review examines the complex role of T cell exhaustion in organ transplantation, highlighting how this dysfunctional immune state can both promote graft

Mega-scale exome sequencing of 1,032,116 people identified 59 independent genes linked to the TG:HDL ratio, including 44 rare-coding associations not detected in the previous largest