"Turn off that TV, it'll rot your brain!" has been a household refrain for decades. While "rot" might be too strong a term, researchers are finding that the overall sentiment could have some merit.

The National Eye Institute (NEI) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Mingquan Lin, PhD, an assistant professor in ...

Scientists have long known that the human brain continues developing well beyond the teenage years, with important changes involving decision-making and emotional regulation extending into the ...

Many of the world's leading causes of irreversible blindness, including glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration, share ...

Lower physical activity is taking a toll on the health of American children and contributing to rising obesity rates ...

An international research team led by Prof. Dr Frank Bosmanbs (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) has discovered a major genetic cause of hyperhidrosis (chronic and excessive sweating).

Scientists have identified genetic changes in wild populations of the parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis which may ...

When cardiac arrest strikes outside of a hospital, survival rates remain unacceptably low, often because CPR is not ...

Alzheimer's disease and many other forms of neurodegeneration share a common culprit. In these diseases, tau proteins that ...

Increases to the standard federal tax deduction implemented in 2018 were made permanent a year ago, and researchers are beginning to understand the downstream effects on state and local municipalities ...

There is no statistically significant evidence that taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, during pregnancy has a ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida USF Health Morsani College of Medicine have identified a potential pathway ...