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.

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

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

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 ...

For decades, scientists have targeted the sticky protein clumps that amass in Alzheimer's brains as a potential way of ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...