Not only can the drug metformin help to effectively manage type 2 diabetes, but it may also give older women a better chance ...

Four hours after eating steak during a family camping trip, a 47-year-old man from New Jersey became severely ill.

A hidden physical change in the body may be helping to drive the prolonged malaise some people experience after contracting ...

The eyes are a window to the brain – and this outward extension of the central nervous system may reveal early signs of ...

The early stages of Alzheimer's disease often involve an insidious decline in short-term memory, along with mounting ...

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there's much more to these ...

Colds don't respond to antibiotics, and most over-the-counter medications deliver modest results at best. In recent years, ...

The increasing number of injectable cosmetic treatments and fillers carried out around the world is driven by a seemingly ...

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until researchers identified it as an impact structure.

Mutations in a gene associated with Crohn's disease have been found to rob critical immune cells of their ability to switch ...

There's fresh hope for early detection and new treatments of glaucoma, a group of eye diseases that have devastating effects ...

A time crystal that beats to the rhythm of both order and chaos has revealed a new way in which matter can keep time.