Category: Health

The body’s heart muscle (for pumping blood), skeletal muscle (for movement and posture), and brown fat (for heat production), each require a lot of energy

The persistent threat of emerging coronaviruses highlights the critical need to establish frontline defenses directly at the respiratory entry portal.

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

Periodontitis is a highly prevalent chronic inflammatory disease worldwide. It leads to periodontal tissue destruction, alveolar bone resorption, and ultimately tooth loosening and loss, severely

Around seven million more adults are living with obesity than would have been if obesity rates had stayed the same as 1993.

The birth of Louise Brown in 1978, the world’s first baby conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART), was a major breakthrough that reshaped the field

The everchanging social, political, and economic landscape in many countries has become more tenuous and intense in recent years.

A $1.25 million grant to UC Riverside from the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) will support a statewide evaluation of California’s traditional health

The United States plans to phase out financial support for Namibia’s HIV response programs

Diagnosing endometriosis is often a challenge

Microplastics are often viewed as pollutants in their own right, but their environmental impact may extend far beyond the plastic particles themselves.

Many prostate cancers depend on androgen hormones, including testosterone, to grow. That is why treatments for advanced disease often try to reduce testosterone production or

Autophagy is an intracellular degradation mechanism in eukaryotes. The autophagosome, which encloses damaged or excess cellular material for degradation, is constructed from lipids supplied by