A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has discovered a surprising new mechanism in the brain that ...

Research into Blue Zones—regions of the world where people tend to live longer—shows that having a sense of purpose in life ...

For years, women in remote Kimberley communities faced an impossible choice—travel hundreds of kilometers for cervical ...

Hundreds of children in Indonesia lined up for free measles shots Monday as authorities rolled out a vaccination campaign in ...

A person who traveled to El Salvador has been diagnosed with New World screwworm—the first reported U.S. case tied to travel ...

A research team from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Hong Kong's LKS Faculty of Medicine ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab have developed a new method for ...

Most people are well aware of the effects of chronic stress in the modern world. While some stress can be a good thing, like ...

Deep inside the body, a slow-growing cluster of mutated blood cells can form. This cluster, found in 1 in 5 older adults, can ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human ...

Only a few decades ago, it was believed that ADHD was something one outgrew during adolescence. However, about half of those ...