From early ocean dips to ice-cold polar plunges, cold-water immersion is increasingly popular among athletes and wellness ...

Older adults' visual functions— eye movement reaction time, speed, and accuracy—are acutely impaired by alcohol, and those with chronic alcohol use disorder (AUD) are not immune to these impairments ...

Misinformation has circulated for years on social media about how coughing forcefully can treat a heart attack. Health ...

Linus Pauling was a Nobel Prize winner and considered by some to be the founding father of molecular biology. According to ...

While many studies have reported a link between a mother's health condition during pregnancy and her child's risk of autism, ...

Congenital heart defects (abnormalities of the heart that are present at birth) are the most common type of birth defect and, ...

CAR T cell therapy is one of the most promising new cancer treatments to emerge in recent years. It involves removing a ...

Previable premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is when the amniotic sac, the protective membrane that surrounds the fetus, ...

Increased use of ventilation and air cleaners, designed to mitigate the spread of viral infections in hospitals, is likely to ...

In the medical community, research has traditionally focused on how to prevent and treat the leading medical causes of maternal mortality, which include bleeding, infection, hypertension, and ...

The U.S. will ban nearly all uses of the common industrial cleaning agent, trichloroethylene (TCE), this year—more than 50 ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have made new discoveries about amniotic fluid, a substance historically ...