A Medical University of South Carolina team reports in Frontiers in Immunology that it has engineered a new type of ...

A new generation of CRISPR technology developed at UNSW Sydney offers a safer path to treating genetic diseases like Sickle Cell, while also proving beyond doubt that chemical tags on DNA - often ...

Yet the treatment and monitoring of the neurological disease seems many decades behind. Clinicians typically gauge the ...

Cancer Research UK-funded scientists have uncovered dementia-like behaviour in pancreas cells at risk of turning into cancer.

The medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are being exaggerated while the risks are being downplayed, suggest the findings of a survey on the type of information patients and their relatives ...

A large international study has found that spironolactone, a medication for high blood pressure and heart failure, does not ...

SGLT-2 inhibitor and GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs should be used in all or almost all adults with type 2 diabetes at higher ...

Maryland is the first state to tap into an old fund connected to the Affordable Care Act to help solve a new problem: helping ...

Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a ...

Much the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres - regions of repetitive DNA sequences and a protein structure - protect the tips of chromosomes from damage.

Researchers have developed a high-speed 3D imaging microscope that can capture detailed cell dynamics of an entire small ...

Cerebral palsy affects around one in 345 children in the U.S., and more than half of them experience a problem called dystonia - involuntary and often painful muscle contractions, most commonly in the ...