Bacteria can make testosterone. What could that mean for prostate cancer?
Many prostate cancers depend on androgen hormones, including testosterone, to grow. That is why treatments for advanced disease often try…
Many prostate cancers depend on androgen hormones, including testosterone, to grow. That is why treatments for advanced disease often try…
Men already at risk genetically for the most common form of hair loss have a 7 percent added risk of…
The study provides the first projection based on national registry data, separately assessing the number of people with dementia living…
A commonly used systemic antifungal medication may help reduce symptoms in a subset of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)…
Influenza continues to cause major illness each year in the United States, leading to more than 35,000 deaths annually. Children,…
Tens of thousands of new mums across Britain may be suffering undiagnosed PTSD following childbirth, according to a University of…
When temperatures spike, emergency physicians expect to see more cases of dehydration and heat stroke. But a new Northwestern University…
Building on recent discoveries about the adult thymus, Mass General Brigham investigators used artificial intelligence to show that incidental radiation…
At minimum, nearly a quarter of all former National Football League (NFL) players who died from 2016 to 2021 had…
Findings from the 2025 Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey (OSDUHS) released today by the Centre for Addiction and…
Most people carry the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans in their lungs for life and never know it, held in check by…
CAR T-cell therapy has transformed cancer care, offering new hope to patients with aggressive blood cancers who once had few…
Researchers searching for genetic clues to the growing problem of malaria drug resistance identified new mutations associated with the parasite’s…
Every year, lung cancer kills more than 100,000 people in the United States. Smoking is the leading risk factor for…
Habitual cannabis users experienced about 9% fewer premature heartbeats on days they inhaled cannabis compared with days they abstained, a…
The brain’s immune cells are increasingly recognized as key players in Alzheimer’s disease, but exactly how they change as the…
In the event of a pandemic, every society is confronted with the question: How can the spread of an infectious…
Having normal blood pressure, no diabetes and not smoking was associated with living nearly 13 years longer without dementia, according…
A new open resource of cancer models has enabled researchers to create the first large-scale map of the genes that…
One in eight mothers in England is now diagnosed with gestational diabetes, with diagnoses rising by 60 per cent in…
A person’s posture appears to affect their emotions and decision-making ability more than they realize, according to new research from…
Linguistic models that analyzed the words children used when talking about stressful events proved better at predicting future mental health…
New blood tests that detect early changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease are making diagnosis easier and accessible to more patients,…
A bioinspired material, developed by scientists at Imperial College London, accelerates wound healing and the repair of human skin. The material captures the body’s own healing…
Cardiovascular risk factors are linked to higher risk of heart disease, but it has been unknown how they are related…
A new mouse study led by UCLA Health suggests that inflammation during pregnancy can trigger autism-like changes in offspring, but…
An analysis of more than 42,000 U.S. deaths linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) found that death rates varied by age,…
Individuals with psychiatric conditions show reduced flexibility in their brain network dynamics, according to a new Rutgers study. The human…
Many fractures are early-warning signs of osteoporosis. Yet in everyday clinical care they often go unrecognized and undocumented as warning…
There is no statistically significant evidence that taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol, during pregnancy has a negative impact on…