Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a hereditary disease which, in addition to carrying a high risk of bowel cancer, also ...

Studies by a growing number of labs have identified neurological health benefits from exposing human volunteers or animal ...

The umbilical cord may become a crystal ball of sorts, helping doctors predict the future of children at risk for long-term ...

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of ...

Differentiated thyroid cancer patients who receive radioiodine (RAI) treatment after surgery have increased relative survival ...

Health officials in California are now offering gift cards to encourage folks near farms to get tested for bird flu.

Researchers using next-generation DNA sequencing have identified four specific genes whose mutations are linked to the ...

Researchers from the Endocrine Tumors group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), in collaboration with ...

Doctors can accurately predict a person's risk of fatty liver disease as early as 16 years before symptoms develop, a new ...