Health and Medicine

Over 1,500 scientists from 30 countries and 46 states will attend the 56th Annual Drosophila Research Conference. The conference will feature close to 1,000...

A new study explores what multiple sclerosis patients know, or want to know, about their physician's financial relationship with the pharmaceutical company sponsoring clinical...

Boys who show aggressive tendencies develop greater physical strength as teenagers than boys who are not aggressive, according to new research. Research has suggested...

A long-accepted scientific theory about the role the hippocampus plays in our unconscious memory is being challenged by new research. For decades, scientists have...

A team researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests heading for the hills, in the Rockies, to...

A major hurdle to curing people of HIV infection is the way the virus hides in a reservoir composed primarily of dormant immune cells....

A protein commonly found in human cells could be an important switch that activates cancer cell metastasis, according to a new study. The finding...

Think of it as interval training for the dinner table. Fasting has been shown in mice to extend lifespan and to improve age-related diseases....

A reader asks: What is the connection, if any, between fatty liver disease and sleep apnea? ...read more

A reader asks: What is the connection, if any, between fatty liver disease and sleep apnea? ...read more