Health and Medicine

Cardiovascular risks of severe pediatric obesity, assessed among a recent study, have been recently published. The authors found that severely obese adolescents carry not...

An excise tax on sugar-sweetened drinks would be an effective way to improve the health of heavy consumers, new research shows. Australian researchers compared...

More than three-fourths of infants with skull flattening related to sleep position achieve normal head shape with conservative treatment -- without the need for...

The use of adjuvant systemic therapy for localized gastrointestinal stromal tumors has significantly increased over time, a new study has found, and patients treated...

Problems in a gene responsible for producing the protein TAF4b leave mice -- and maybe men -- unable to sustain sperm production. As embryos,...

Walk down the aisles of any food supplement store and you'll see that the use of nitrate supplements by athletes and fitness buffs has...

Psychology has played, and will continue to play, a critical role in cancer prevention, treatment and control, according to newly published research. ...

A new, large-scale Canadian study shows that many adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) live in a long-term health setting – such as a...

A new paper-based platform has been created for conducting a wide range of complex medical diagnostics. The key development was the invention of fluid...

For the first time, researchers have revealed clear and detailed evidence of the inequitable delivery of mental health care services for disadvantaged Australians. ...