Around 1 in 6 older adults take aspirin as their primary method of preventing cardiovascular disease—despite stricter ...

Substance use was implicated in more than half of all adult drownings in baths or hot tubs in the last 10 years, according to ...

Young people with friends who vape are 15 times more likely to use e-cigarettes, and more adolescents are turning to illicit ...

Scientists from QIMR Berghofer's Cardiac Bioengineering Lab have developed lab-grown, three-dimensional heart tissues known ...

A joint study has evaluated the usability of a compact EEG device (BrainStatus) developed by Bittium Biosignals from Oulu ...

A rare cell in the lining of lungs is fundamental to the organ-wide response necessary to repair damage from toxins like ...

Advanced treatments, known as immunotherapies that activate T cells—our body's immune cells—to eliminate cancer cells, have ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Water fluoridation is effective in preventing tooth decay overall, but there are greater benefits for children from lower ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the ...

The University of Minnesota is stepping up efforts to identify biological threats that could trigger an epidemic, launching ...

Capital Medical University, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, reports that betaine, a molecule produced ...