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After collecting cardiovascular data from an astronaut and a long-distance swimmer after their respective activities, scientists have...

Now, in May 2021, the United States government has officially made COVID-19 vaccines available to children from 12 to 15 years of age.

Placebo effect may explain the reported benefits of psychedelic microdoses.

Little has been known about how the novel COVID-19 virus causes silent hypoxia until recently.

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, otherwise known as progeria, is a rare disorder that causes accelerated aging in children and...

Amongst middle-aged, working-class people of European descent, the mortality rate has risen since the 1990s. The term “death of despair,”...

Obesity has been identified as a risk factor of COVID-19. It triggers an inflammatory state of the patient’s body, which in turn weakens...

Never before has the correlation between peak P2.5 levels and the academic success of children in grades K-5 been studied until now.

According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, approximately seven or eight percent of the United States population will develop...

Cancer is something that has touched many individuals and families. Though the scientific community has made novel discoveries and is...

Having infected nearly 10 million Americans as of November 8, the COVID-19 pandemic has put a large strain on individuals psychologically...

A cancer research team sourced at Goethe University found startling results on the effects of an anti-diarrheal drug, loperamide, on cell...

Researchers at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have revealed promising results in helping heart attacks

Researchers at Washington State University have made new insights about the short-term benefits of cannabis in patients suffering from OCD.

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier (Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin) and

Until recently, Parkinson’s disease could only be detected by clinical symptoms or during autopsy, as it is often misdiagnosed or found too

Finding the most vulnerable and accessible sites on viruses can help researchers develop more efficient vaccines.

In recent years, there have been great strides made in tissue-grafting technology.

In a recent study, researchers discovered a strong correlation between levels of social interaction and the amount of gray matter in a brain

For people with autism, it is not unusual to experience either sensory hypersensitivity or under-sensitivity, especially when it comes to...

The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically impacted current medical research. It has caused cancellation or postponement of many clinical...

Memories of traumatic experiences tend to have a lasting effect on individuals of varying ages. Sometimes these memories translate to PTSD.

This reengineered toxin introduces a new, refreshing method to edit DNA, target mutations.

Researchers on Cristina Zavaleta’s team from USC Viterbi Department of Biomedical Engineering recently developed new ways for cancer...

In February of 2020, researchers across the United States concluded the largest appendicitis trial to date whose purpose was to evaluate...

Pfizer has just announced that it has gotten FDA approval to accept children as young as 12 years of age to enroll in their trials.

As of Saturday, February 8th, 2020, there have been at least 12 cases of 2019-nCoV reported in the United States.

Elizabeth Warren, the leading female Democratic presidential candidate for the 2020 election, has proposed a $20.5 trillion "Medicare f

Dr. Tara Zandvliet, a San Diego physician, has been formally charged with negligence by the Medical Board of California.

Within the past several months, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have made great advancements in the development of...

Many medical professionals produce an irksome reaction when a patient or family member utters these words: chronic Lyme disease. It’s a...

For a debilitating disease as destructive as HIV, any amount of progress is an outright victory. Therefore, when a patient was declared...

A recent issue of Influenza Watch, a weekly report released by the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency to summarize...

The past year has seen a disturbing uptick in the number of cases of measles in the United States. A devastating disease, measles was...

On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration issued warnings to 17 dietary supplement companies for making falsified or unsupported...

For many decades, it has been known that a human protein, p53, has played a significant role in fighting cancer. However, researchers at...

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, otherwise known as NSAIDs, are drugs that are known to reduce pain, inflammation, fever, and blood...

One of the most visible health stories of our time remains the opioid crisis. In the 1990s, when drugs like Oxycodone were first...

The US government shutdown is now in day 23 of the longest shutdown in history with no end in sight. While the shutdown has major...

On October 1st, the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their pioneer work on...

As the Camp Fire and the Woolsey Fire continue to burn throughout parts of California, evacuation centers have been filled with fire...

Clinical trials are a critical bridge between the worlds of scientific discovery and patient care. Billions of dollars and countless...