Some highly effective medications also happen to be highly mysterious. Such is the case with the antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs: They are the most common...

Sugars and fats are the primary fuels that power every cell, tissue and organ. For most cells, sugar is the energy source of choice, but when nutrients are scarce, such as during starvation or extreme...

Hockey goaltenders could have a new competitive advantage in stopping the puck thanks to researchers at Brock University. Professor of Kinesiology Kelly Lockwood and graduate student Colin Dunne have...

Getting older brings many benefits, such as wisdom and cultivating meaningful relationships. These advantages are usually crowded out by fears of mental and physical decline. The harmful effects of ageing...

Researchers with the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have discovered which gut bacteria help our immune system battle cancerous tumors and how they do it....

(HealthDay)—The pandemic is taking a big toll on Americans’ psyches: A new government report found that about 41% of adults surveyed in late June “reported an adverse mental or behavioral...

Because of her last name, Donulaé Knuckles has long answered to “Nurse Knuckles.” Yet the grit and determination the name conjures fits, too. Raised by a single mom in Detroit, she prioritized...

An immunomodulatory drug called fingolimod, which is approved for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, blocks human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and transmission in human immune cells, according...

Picornaviruses comprise a family of viruses that can cause a number of diseases, including polio, meningitis, and in rare cases, myocarditis, encephalitis and paralysis. In a new biomedical science dissertation...

A woman has had the veins in her vagina "closed off" after a condition left her with chronic pain every time she got intimate. Victoria Jenkins, 34, started experiencing stabbing pains during...