Nearly one third of people aged 65 years and older fall each year. Most falls occur in the home. Eliminating hazards...

Hemophilia A is a rare bleeding disorder caused by a mutation in the gene encoding factor VIII, effectively stopping...

Unlike most soft tissue sarcomas, desmoid tumors don't spread to distant parts of the body. But these tumors can grow...

AD is a common neurodegenerative disease that causes dementia. It is characterized by the accumulation of a protein...

Billions of people worldwide have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Some instances of myocarditis...

C. difficile is an obligately anaerobic species of bacteria, which means it does not replicate in the presence of oxygen...

A trial conducted at the University Hospital Bonn, in Germany, has been testing the benefit of a scanning method known...

The retina is found at the back of the eye. It's a layered tissue that receives light and converts it into a signal that...

Obesity causes complex and dramatic changes in metabolism in adipose (fat) tissue, damage to the pancreas, reduced...

Nearly two dozen experimental therapies targeting the immune system are in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease, a...

Sickle cell disease (SCD), a rare chronic, progressive, life-threatening, inherited blood disorder, often affects...

A commonly used scientific method to analyze a tiny amount of DNA in early human embryos fails to accurately reflect...