Diet‑related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity and hypertension, particularly those affecting children, remain ...

Cells behave like cities and organelles carry out infrastructural roles: mitochondria are powerhouses, the endoplasmic ...

The frequency of substance use, early age of initiation, and cannabis-related memory impairments are among the primary ...

The human body cannot produce vitamin B2—also known as riboflavin—itself; it must absorb the important substance through diet ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, and it affects over 7 million people in the United States alone.

Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba report that collaboration between home health care institutions and private after-hours ...

Simple field-based tests of muscle strength can provide early clues about the risk of developing several long-term illnesses.

Medical debt is associated with deferred care, most commonly deferred dental care, according to a study published online March 10 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Kyle J. Moon, from the ...

MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, shedding light on a longstanding neuroscientific phenomenon known as the ...

When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, the mission is to remove the tumor entirely ...

A topical cream activated the skin's immune defenses and suppressed tumor growth in two preclinical models of cutaneous ...