Pockets of low vaccination rates in some schools help explain why measles outbreaks have been climbing in the U.S., even when ...

Crohn's disease, a condition characterized by widespread inflammation in the gut, may arise from a weakened immune response, ...

At a Walgreens in San Francisco's bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting ...

Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) are using a range of mathematical models to ...

For people with severe lung diseases, a transplant of a healthy organ is often their only chance of survival. However, donor ...

A new stem cell treatment for ARK (aniridia-related keratopathy) improved patients' vision in a first-in-human clinical trial ...

High blood pressure affects nearly 1 in 8 people worldwide, and its impact goes far beyond a number on a blood pressure monitor. It can quietly damage the heart, kidneys and brain, making it one of ...

People living with severe mental illness face a substantially higher risk of dementia throughout adulthood, as well as a significantly elevated risk of stroke in early and middle adulthood, according ...

You get a message that a test result is available in your online patient portal. Do you look at it right away, or do you wait to hear from your health care provider?

Cannabis users develop psychosis an average of two-and-a-half years earlier than nonusers, a new meta-analysis by UNSW Sydney researchers shows. This earlier onset of psychosis becomes more pronounced ...

Clinicians often collect an endotracheal aspirate culture (EAC) from patients of all ages with breathing tubes to check mucus for signs of bacterial infection, a complication that can be deadly.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects every individual differently. Scientists have identified more than a thousand genes associated with ASD, yet no single gene accounts for most cases. This has ...