Category: Health

Pre-eclampsia causes more than 70,000 maternal deaths every year worldwide

It’s spring cleaning season, and for some people that means drudgery or anxiety

Another attempt to demonstrate that the fiction of acupuncture is based in reality. This time it is the interstitium. Nope. The post Lipstick on Fengxi

Hundreds of cases are suspected in central Africa but experts fear the actual number may be much higher.

A drug widely used to treat asthma and allergies may also help fight aggressive cancers, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that uncovered how tumors

Giving whole blood or the component parts of blood are equally effective options for paramedics and emergency medical technicians to use in treating patients with

​For the first time, scientists have directly measured how smoking changes the mechanical behavior of human lung tissue.

Proteins are critical to life – and to industry. There are countless proteins that could be engineered to treat and even cure serious diseases and

The Congolese health ministry is reporting that there have been at least 131 deaths and over 500 suspected cases in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in

A University of Bath-led project has secured £500,000 to develop a first-of-its-kind ‘organ-on-chip’ device that replicates connections between the brain, gut and pancreas.

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 visitor from Texas who was afflicted with measles might have exposed many to the airborne virus while in Massachusetts, health officials announced.

The CDC said it’s investigating the possibility that the consumption of raw oysters may have infected 64 people across 22 states with salmonella.