Category: Health

Dr. Smita Das often hears the same myth: You can’t get hooked on pot. And the misconception has become more widespread as a growing number

A combination of outreach methods—including texts, automated messages, and live phone calls—can significantly improve follow-up care for hard-to-reach patients after they have been discharged, according

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, along with collaborators at Northwestern University, have developed a noninvasive approach to treat one of

Sugar-based liquid solvents store crucial injection-based therapeutics such as insulin and vaccines.

We owe a lot to tissue resident memory T cells (TRM). These specialized immune cells are among the body’s first responders to disease.

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) impacts nearly two million Americans, and by the time most people learn they have it, most of the body’s insulin-producing cells

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a brain circuit that can drive repetitive and compulsive behaviors in mice, even when natural rewards such

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence

An Emory University study, published Friday by Science Advances, provides the first evidence that exposure to higher temperatures during pregnancy is linked to specific biological

One in every five American children and teens is obese; that’s up 35% from 2000, as severe childhood obesity rates have nearly doubled in that

President Tweety McTreason and his Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. say they want the government to follow “gold standard” science

A Washington state resident is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu, but state health officials said

A University of California, Riverside-led study has found that a community-based health program, ¡Coma, Muévase y Viva! (“Eat, Move, and Live!”), is helping Latino families

The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it’s not clear if it will be as bad as last winter’s