Category: Health

Safe drinking water depends not only on treatment, but also on knowing when harmful microorganisms may be present in source waters.

The songs produced by birds share similarities with the structure of human language, a study shows.

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease in which the body’s own immune system overreacts to minimal or inappropriate stimuli, producing recurrent attacks

Like spies evading detection through being masters of disguise, many cancer cells are adorned with a copious coat of sugar-derived molecules that throws the proverbial

Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye

Why do some breast cancer patients face a much higher risk of distant metastasis, while others with seemingly similar disease experience far better outcomes?

The aberrant activation of the mTOR pathway and its crosstalk with other signaling cascades represent key drivers of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression. mTOR-mediated ferroptosis suppression

Understanding how heart muscle cells stop dividing and acquire the characteristics needed to sustain lifelong cardiac function remains one of the greatest challenges in cardiovascular

Women live longer than men in nearly every country in the world, yet they experience higher rates of disability, dementia and many other age-related conditions.

The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new

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