Category: Health

“It will be harder to feed 9 billion people in 2050 than it would be today,” says Gibran Vita, a

Estrogens are hormones that play central roles in the development and the physiology of the breast, but also are involved

You no doubt think that stepping into your shower will wash away dirt and germs, but a new study shows

Despite years of attention to the problem, U.S. hospitals have made little headway in preventing severe cases of bedsores among

An innovative San Francisco program of community choirs for older adults found that singing in a choir reduced loneliness and

Boston, MA – A series of reports from five cities across the US found that young children and their parents

Your life partner has a much greater influence on your longevity than the genes you inherited from your family, according

Babies with cystic fibrosis may breathe better by inhaling hypertonic saline, according to a randomized controlled trial conducted in Germany

Long thought to suppress cancer by slowing cellular metabolism, the protein complex AMPK also seemed to help some tumors grow,

Each year, there are some 13.3 million new cases of acute kidney injury (AKI), a serious affliction. Formerly known as