High levels of cholesterol are linked to heart disease, stroke, and many other health problems. However, this complex and ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

The extracellular matrix, a complex 3D structure made of proteins and sugars, is essential for healing wounds and homeostasis ...

A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition ...

A sweeping review of more than 2,500 studies reveals that despite booming public enthusiasm, cannabis has strong scientific ...

A Bay Area-based scientist has been awarded one of the world's highest honors in medicine, The Nobel Foundation announced early Monday morning. Frederick Ramsdell, an immunologist and research leader ...

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, ...

UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) is the recipient of a 2025 NIH-funded Institutional National Research Service Award (T32). The T32 grant will provide ...

We measure cholesterol and blood pressure,” said McCann, “but what if the most powerful biomarker of all is purpose?” ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new cause of Parkinson's disease -- mutations in a gene called TMEM230. This appears to be the third gene definitively linked to confirmed cases of ...