Medical News

Smoking itself is related to suicide rates, claims a new study. But stricter policies on public smoking and higher cigarette taxes may reduce the risk, according to these researchers.

All four cases of human plague in Colorado were linked to a dog that officials believe was exposed to fleas that fed on a rabbit or prairie dog infected with the Yersinia pestis bacteria.

Infection rates for HIV are down by one-third across the United States over a decade. But, one group has shown a dramatic increase in cases, and they are among the nation's youngest victims.

Family hopes Facebook can help find kidney donor for ailing father. Georgia police officer Raleigh Callaway said in Stage 5 kidney failure.

As more U.S. states legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use, a variety of pot-infused edibles from cakes to lemonade make their way into the market.

MIT researchers developed an app, Ginger.io, that collects data about its users behaviors, locations, health conditions and habits and then notes inconsistencies that may predict the onset of problems such as depression....

New study suggests that alcohol-related health problems may be prevented with fish oil intake--but that doesn't give you the ticket to go take happy hour hereon. Researchers tell you why.

Scientists conducted a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of a combination therapy for patients with both hepatitis C and HIV. A significant amount of patients were cured of hepatitis C.

Among those who died in the blasting of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 were AIDS and HIV experts and advocates who could have continued to contribute to ending the AIDS epidemic worldwide.

New research at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis links smoking to suicide risk. States with stricter laws on smoking have lower suicide rates.

Is it possible for humans to walk on all fours like our alleged ancestors 4 million years ago? You might just believe that after seeing what this Turkish family is capable of doing.

After a "sloppy" and "inexcusable" incident of mishandling, CDC admits the agency's safety lapses pattern and vows to improve its protocol and safety culture.

Researchers developed a method that could transform ordinary heart muscle cells into biological pacemaker, a development that could lead to the replacement of electronic pacemakers in the future.

It's possible! People good with numbers are also good with words, as discovered by a team of scientists who looked into genetic influences. Here's what they further discovered.

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Most of the genetic risk for autism comes from versions of genes that are common in the population rather than from rare variants or spontaneous glitches. Heritability also outwe...

(Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Researchers at the BBSRC-funded Babraham Institute, in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Single Cell Genomics Centre, have developed a powerfu...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Researchers found that an enzyme called FBP1 -- essential for regulating metabolism -- binds to a transcription factor in the nucleus of certain kidney cells and restrains ...

(Baylor College of Medicine) A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset -- the first seque...

(University of Utah) Woodrats lost their ability to eat toxic creosote bushes after antibiotics killed their gut microbes. Woodrats that never ate the plants were able to do so after receiving fecal transplants with micr...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Nearly 60 percent of the risk of developing autism is genetic and most of that risk is caused by inherited variant genes that are common in the population and p...

(The JAMA Network Journals) Among uncircumcised men in Kenya, compensation in the form of food vouchers worth approximately US $9 or $15, compared with lesser or no compensation, resulted in a modest increase in the prev...

(SingHealth) A multidisciplinary team of scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and Singapore General Hospital have made a seminal breakthrough in understanding t...