Health and Medicine

Marriage and exercise, sexual desire and mosquito-borne illnesses: see how well you know this week's health news. ...read more

Marriage and exercise, sexual desire and mosquito-borne illnesses: see how well you know this week's health news. ...read more

Prehistoric and evolutionary influences appear to shape men's expressed preference for women with a curvy backside. ...

What if there were a pill that made you more compassionate? A new study finds that giving a drug that changes the neurochemical balance...

Scientists have developed a fluorescence microscopy technique that for the first time shows where and when proteins are produced. This allows researchers to directly...

Since HIV emerged in the '80s, drug 'cocktails' transformed the deadly disease into a manageable one. But the virus is adept at developing resistance...

Stem cells can have a strong sense of identity. Taken out of their home in the hair follicle, for example, and grown in culture,...

University of Illinois social work researcher is collaborating with Champaign-Urbana Public Health District to administer perinatal depression screenings to low-income women. ...

Children who are older when they start kindergarten do well in the short term, academically and socially. But as teenagers, these old-for-grade students are...

Scientists have shown that bacteria living in the intestine both 'talk' and 'listen' to each other. Using small molecules in place of words, these...