The United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) published a report last Thursday which shows a decline in both...
A new study has shown that cigarette smoking can cause 12 different types of cancer. When all of these cancers are pooled together,...
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute’s Florida campus have identified a potential new therapeutic approach to osteoporosis which could promote the development...
Sedative sleeping pills have been linked to an increased motor vehicle crash risk by a team of researchers at the University of...
A woman, whose ovarian tissue was removed when she was 13 years old, gave birth to a baby boy late last year. The...
A new mobile CPR app has been shown to increase survival rates in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, according to a recently published...
Over half of the children and adolescents in the United States are inadequately hydrated, possibly as a result of not drinking enough...
A potentially deadly flesh-eating bacteria which thrives in warm saltwater has already killed two people in Florida this year, a state health...
A 21-year-old South African man who received the world’s first penile transplant claims that his new penis works and that he’s to...
The consumption of nuts and peanuts has been linked to a reduced risk of death caused by several major causes of mortality,...
Dr. Andrew Miller, a plastic surgeon of Associates in Plastic Surgery in New York and New Jersey, was quoted by CNN as...
Regardless of race, experiencing a stroke ages the brain an average of roughly 8 years, according to a recently published study in...
With the upcoming upgrade to Apple’s iOS 9, the iPhone is scheduled to receive an update to its HealthKit app which will...
The generic vaccine baccilus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), which the NY Daily notes is an almost century-old vaccine used in the prevention of tuberculosis,...
Nearly a third of all of the children in the United States end up exposed to weapons violence before they reach the...
People infected with what has been dubbed the “cat poop parasite” — known formally as Toxoplasma gondii or T. gondii — are...
In a nation where one in three adults is at risk of alcohol use disorder, it’s perhaps no surprise that drunk driving...
Doctors at UCSF and California Pacific Medical finished up the final 18 surgeries in a rare nine-way kidney transplant swap at the...
Toothbrushes in communal bathrooms were found to be contaminated with fecal matter over 60 percent of the time, according to the preliminary...
Neuroscientists have discovered a previously unknown direct connection between the brain and the immune system, according to the preliminary findings of a...