In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a study ...

More and more people are worried about the long-term effects of contact sports on the brain. In football (soccer), studies ...

Two common and potentially deadly heart diseases can be caused by mutations in the same gene. Surprisingly, though, these two conditions are each associated with very different clinical symptoms.

In his new book, No More Normal, psychiatrist Alastair Santhouse recalls an experience from the 1980s when he was a ...

Delays in diagnosing and treating psoriatic arthritis—a common inflammatory disorder affecting around 200,000 people in the U ...

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and an elevated risk of cancer has grown since last fall, with more ...

While the typical image of someone suffering a heart attack might be a man clutching his chest, heart disease is a major ...

D printing has gone from being a futuristic idea to a revolutionary tool. In medicine, its ability to produce custom-made, ...

A major round of job cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) could weaken efforts to ...

A new study published in JCI Insight suggests that interleukin-7 (IL-7), a key immune-boosting cytokine, may help critically ...

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed an innovative method that can help to understand better how cells behave ...