Rates of leg and foot amputations in Illinois hospitals increased 65% between 2016 and 2023, reports a new Northwestern ...

An international research consortium co-led by scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Toronto and University of Pittsburgh has mapped the functional impact of more ...

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, ...

People living with HIV who smoke are currently more likely to die from lung cancer than from HIV-related causes. Two cancer ...

Some products of arachidonic acid have already been well studied: the prostanoids formed by cyclooxygenases are central ...

Low body weight in young women has been linked to a range of health concerns, including disrupted menstrual cycles, ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE), a type of blood clot in the lungs, sends more than half a million people to U.S. hospitals each year ...

Treatment for obesity in the UK could become a "two-tier system" where the most vulnerable patients miss out altogether.

Researchers at the VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology have visualized how brain network development is altered in a ...

Astringency is a dry, puckering, rough, or sandpapery sensation in the mouth caused by plant-derived polyphenols.

Sepsis continues to be a leading cause of mortality in ICUs worldwide. Despite advances in early detection and treatment, standardized antibiotic dosing frequently ignores patient-level ...

A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease protein, TDP-43, drives overactive nerve cells in the neurodegenerative ...