A new article published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers underscores the profound role that stigma can play in health care - ...

The accumulation of fats in the liver is driven by high-fat diets and obesity, and is becoming an increasingly prevalent ...

Tobacco use remains a significant global health challenge, despite extensive control measures at both national and ...

Scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency, is not just an 18th-century seafarers' disease, as a case study of a 65-year-old woman with ...

The duration of breastfeeding is shorter than average among mothers with a fear of childbirth - regardless of the mode of ...

The patient was in his 60s, an African American man with emphysema. The oximeter placed on his fingertip registered well ...

Imagine a country with a billion people, where every individual has different interests and different goals. You will never ...

Canadian vaccination programs could switch to a 1-dose gender-neutral human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination approach and eliminate cervical cancer, suggests new modeling in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Ass ...

The human microbiome plays a critical role in our health, influencing everything from disease development to treatment responses.

Psychiatric drugs are reported to be about 50% more effective in clinical trials funded by the drug's manufacturer than when trials of the same drug are sponsored by other groups, new research shows.

A team of researchers from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas (CIB-CSIC), and the Instituto de Ciencias ...

Technology breaks reduce cell phone use in college classrooms but have mixed results on academic performance, suggesting ...