Although diseases of the heart and blood vessels (cardiovascular disease, CVD) kill more people worldwide than anything else, with 17.3 million deaths globally, cancer has now overtaken CVD as the main cause of death in 12 European countries. New data...
Eating yogurt may help keep bones healthy. Credit: © Monkey Business / Fotolia The largest observational study to date of dairy intakes and bone and frailty measurements in older adults has found that increased yogurt consumption was associated with a higher...
London in the present day. Research shows that the Great Smog event of 1952 in London likely still affects some people's health more than 60 years later. London still has smoggy days today. Credit: © barnyz / Flickr London's Great Smog...
More than 18 million Americans got their drinking water from systems with lead violations in 2015, according to a groundbreaking Natural Resources Defense Council report. The problem could be significantly more pervasive because many more water systems known to...
New findings are important because they offer a new perspective on the cause of race-based bias. Credit: © Michael Pettigrew / Fotolia Two studies by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto and...
Research from the School of Family Life found that happily married couples have better health. Credit: © drubig-photo / Fotolia New BYU research finds that people in happy marriages live less "in sickness" but enjoy more of life "in health." In...
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified antibodies capable of protecting against Zika virus infection, and located the precise spot on the Zika virus that the antibodies recognize. The work is a significant step...
Michigan State University research found that teachers are resigning largely because of their unhappiness with the education system. Credit: Michigan State University As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public -- and viral -- new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely...
Asthma costs the UK health service at least £1.1 billion each year, researchers have estimated. The findings are the result of the most comprehensive study of the state of asthma in UK to date. Researchers found that at least three people...
What impact may legalization of recreational marijuana in Oregon have on teen marijuana use? Recent results from an Oregon Research Institute (ORI) study indicate that the influence of legalization on youth may depend on whether they were already using...
First generation cephalosporins -- antibiotics introduced as a treatment against bacterial infections in 1963 -- now show promise for tuberculosis (TB) therapy, according to new research published in Scientific Reports. Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the most deadly infectious...