Public health officials have announced that a veterinarian working in New York might have contracted a form of bird flu virus while...
A total of 13 people in the U.S. have fallen ill due to a deadly form of drug-resistant yeast that has spread...
Researchers from the University of Idaho have come close to synthesizing hop compounds which could one day allow scientists to create medicines...
A report has been issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) that estimates environmental risk now causes 12.6 million deaths each year...
In a new study by researchers from Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), which annually measures the preparedness for each state in the...
While the mandatory surveillance periods for over 160 people in Liberia previously deemed at risk of contracting Ebola were wrapped up on...
Using the revolutionary and increasingly popular gene editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, scientists with the University of California have genetically engineered a strain of...
Scientists have figured out the key to malaria’s rampant growth. Protein molecules called cyclins cause cells to divide rapidly in the malara...
Alzheimer’s disease seems to develop differently in the brains of black patients than it does in the brains of white patients, according...
Scientists believe that Alzheimer’s may be present in the brain before symptoms present themselves, according to a new study. Present findings pooled...
While an unrelated study recently linked smoking to 12 different types of cancer, researchers behind a new study in Taiwan have found...
A new HIV treatment strategy has been found by scientists which entails starving the virus to death by blocking its sugar and...
Swedish researchers found that patients afflicted with celiac disease might be at an increased risk for neuropathy. The study, which was published online...
State health officials in Oklahoma confirmed the state’s first case of measles since 1997. The Oklahoma State Department of Health indicated on...
Scientists studying rats in New York City found the Oriental rat flea, which carries the bubonic plague, hosting on some rat populations...
Scientists believe they have solved the mystery of why Europe experienced outbreaks of bubonic plague over hundreds of years, beginning with the...
A new study says that smoking may be worse for your health than previously believed. The study adds at least five diseases...
There is now a measles outbreak in certain parts of the country and it is highly contagious. However, many people are debating...
The FDA has approved a new combo drug for the treatment of HIV. Now, according to a report by Science World on...
Dementia is a form of Alzheimer’s disease and is actually one of the early stages of it. According to a report by...