Swansea University researchers have led major European study investigating how socio-economic circumstances influence ...

Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for lung cancer, but other environmental exposures can also contribute to the disease.

Measuring waist size may be one of the simplest and most effective ways to detect obesity-related health risks, according to ...

Researchers at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a role for the youth-associated protein TIMP2 in ...

Biologic medicines have transformed the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, migraine, inflammatory disorders and many ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) mainly affects premature and low-birth-weight (LBW) newborns and carries poor outcomes once ...

A research team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a patient-centric "Artificial Intelligence (AI) Virtual Patient Simulation System", overcoming the limitations of ...

Brain stimulation can produce very different effects at different moments, even when the stimulus is delivered the exact same way.

As temperatures continue to soar and amber heat-health alerts are issued across England, warnings are reaching the public but ...

Epilepsy remains a major public health challenge, but its burden is changing in ways that reveal health inequalities.

Within the brain, neurons compute by generating electrical impulses. These signals travel throughout neurons, which are in turn connected in vast networks that control brain functions such as sensory ...

Fulfilling friendships and general close social relationships are strongly linked to excellent physical and mental health, finds a substantial global study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of ...