Recent findings have shown that routine eye screening could also be used for early detection of underlying heart disease in ...

The number of people over 40 in the UK living with glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide—is already ...

Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve ...

Regularly doing a mix of different types of physical activity may be best for prolonging the lifespan, but the associations ...

A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health finds that community water fluoridation (CWF) is not ...

For many cancer patients, hair loss is one of the most distressing side effects of their therapy. Increasingly, they have been taking oral supplements of biotin, which are marketed to consumers for ...

It's well established that gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are strongly linked. But what wasn't known, until a ...

The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

A recent study by Vanderbilt Health researchers has revealed a greater, detrimental role for B lymphocytes (B cells) in the ...

Bowel habits aren't exactly dinner-table talk. But they reflect how quickly the gut moves things along, and when that goes ...

Dorje Dundul recently had his foot gnawed by a brown bear—a member of the species Ursus thibetanus, to be precise.

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...