With 5G communications technology seen as a competitive advantage in the healthcare market, Walmart and telecommunications giant Verizon Communications are in talks to outfit the retailer’s new health...

Orlando Bloom recently unveiled a new tattoo on his right arm, written in Morse code, which was supposed to be a tribute to his son, Flynn.  But since the tattoo was missing a character, it translated...

When melanoma spreads, survival rates decrease. But the tumor cells responsible have been notoriously difficult to detect. Now, researchers in Australia think they know why. Although melanoma only makes...

As fears surrounding the current coronavirus outbreak continue to spread around the world, historians and public health officials are drawing comparisons to another deadly global health emergency. For...

Forty years since its discovery, much remains to be discovered about an enzyme called CaMKII that plays a key role in shaping learning and memory in the brain. Now Roger Colbran, Ph.D., graduate student...

A recent study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development found having an optimistic spouse might cut your risk of developing dementia.  According to the study, a positive partner...

Pakistan has detected its first two cases of novel coronavirus, a public health advisor to Prime Minister Imran Khan tweeted Wednesday, days after Islamabad closed its land border with Iran, where 19...

New research from Kaiser Permanente finds that post-menopausal women with colorectal cancer were more likely to die from their disease or from any cause if they had low social support before diagnosis....

Hong Kong on Saturday began enforcing a mandatory two-week quarantine for anyone arriving from mainland China, a dramatic escalation of its bid to stop the deadly new coronavirus from spreading. The vast...

A tiny molecule of RNA—known as ‘micro RNA’ – plays a key role in ‘rewiring’ cancer cells so they can resist the effects of chemotherapy, a new study reveals. The discovery...