For people with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel), an orphan retinal disorder that gradually destroys central vision, ...

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team has developed a wearable electronic device ...

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a blood test that could transform the diagnosis and monitoring of ...

Scientists have discovered how some children develop natural immunity to a bacterial infection, a vital breakthrough which ...

Many diseases affect men and women differently. Asthma tends to strike men earlier in life, yet more women develop asthma as ...

Most vaccines are designed to provide immunity against just one pathogen. Vaccines for chicken pox (caused by ...

The obesity rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years, affecting more than one billion people worldwide. This prevalent ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease with a spectrum of very different manifestations and ...

A woman in east Pierce County contracted malaria despite not having traveled out of state recently, according to the ...

For patients with amputations affecting the hand, toe transfer surgery provides an alternative to replanting the amputated ...

The human brain builds mental representations of the world based on the signals and information detected via the human senses. While we perceive simultaneously occurring sensory stimuli as being ...

With colorectal cancer on the rise in people under 50, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are looking at the colon's tiniest inhabitants to reveal causes and potential ...