People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a lower overall mortality ...

Basking too long in a sauna may put bathers at risk of heat stroke, particularly if they haven't drunk enough water ...

Concussions and repetitive head trauma in sports like football and boxing, once accepted as an unpleasant consequence of ...

A compound derived from Nectandra leucantha, a tree native to southern Brazil (local names canela-seca or canela-branca), has ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by intermittent airway blockages during sleep, leading ...

A genetic biocontrol method which reduces the lifespan of female insects could work as fast as pesticides to reduce ...

Cancer screening is key to saving patients' lives since an earlier stage diagnosis improves survival rates, decreases morbidity, and leads to less intensive treatments.

Autoimmune diseases, where the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own healthy cells and tissues, often have a preclinical stage before diagnosis that's characterized by mild symptoms or ...

Diabetes has long been lumped into two categories - Type 1, which often appears in childhood, or Type 2, which is associated with obesity and typically develops later in life. But scientists have ...

A multidisciplinary team of University of Miami researchers studying factors associated with health outcomes and disease risk in the Hispanic community has received a $21 million grant from the ...

Depth degradation is a problem biologists know all too well: The deeper you look into a sample, the fuzzier the image becomes. A worm embryo or a piece of tissue may only be tens of microns thick, but ...

Ebola virus, one of the deadliest pathogens, has a fatality rate of about 50%, posing a serious threat to global health and safety.