But there are challenges to actually casting this wider net, as studies are starting to reveal. Harvard-affiliated researchers were studying testing strategies at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston when they realized that the rapid oral test ...
What if preventing millions of deaths in children every year were as simple as a little transgenic technology and a favorite food that's a dime a dozen, proverbially speaking? To Peter Lachmann, at the University of Cambridge in England, it ...
Along with glass ceilings and high heels, a visit to the gynecologist falls somewhere on the dark side of being the fairer sex. It's something to which many women grimly resign themselves. That's because, from a woman's first signs of puberty to ...
Today's fountain of youth is filled with a strange brew of fairy-tale herbs and chemicals: Chaga mushrooms, osmolytes, coffeeberry extract, polyhydroxy acids, silver tip white tea, rhodiola. Americans shelled out $44.6 billion for anti-aging products ...
BALTIMORE (Reuters) - On a Friday afternoon in August, a few donors trickle in to the Baltimore Red Cross donation room, filling only a small fraction of the dozen or so steel-blue beds. Nationwide, regional branches of the Red Cross, the humanitarian ...
On many online message boards and Internet chat rooms, anxious patients share details about the muscle pain and memory loss they have noticed since they started taking statins to lower their cholesterol. A new study suggests these people may be seeking ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Female mice became sexually voracious and tried to mate like males after scientists disabled a small sensory organ, casting fresh light on how gender-specific behavior develops in animals. The difference seems to lie in how male ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee endorsed legislation on Wednesday allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products, a proposal supported by public health groups and the nation's largest cigarette maker. The bill ...
WASHINGTON - Children taught about sexual abuse in school are better able to recognize signs of abuse and do ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also ...
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