Imagine that you are going to conduct research on how different factors affect a child in the womb. Bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol or poor eating habits are factors that may affect the child....

(HealthDay)—Cardiovascular risk factors are associated with cognitive impairment among individuals with schizophrenia, according to a review and meta-analysis published online March 3 in JAMA Psychiatry. Katsuhiko...

As a viral immunologist who develops immunization strategies to prevent infectious diseases and treat cancers, I would like to highlight outstanding questions about the emergency use of vaccines against...

For assistant professor of sociology James Doucet-Battle, diabetes research is personal. His grandmother was diabetic, and that’s part of what inspired him to delve into the issue through the lens...

More than one in four adults in California report having poor oral health, but that figure rises to roughly one in two for the state’s lowest-income residents and drops to one in five for those...

A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Japan has identified multiple loci associated with ancestry-specific risk factors for coronary artery disease. In their paper...

Researchers at McGill University and the Douglas Mental Health University Institute, in collaboration with the StoP-AD Center, have published a new paper in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, examining...

Childhood obesity is a health threat that is becoming more and more common worldwide. It increases risk later on for a variety of life-threatening challenges, including type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart...

New research has uncovered the risk factors for Fijians carrying a pneumonia-causing bacteria. The collaborative study, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and the Fiji Ministry...

Certain markers of a person’s financial and social status, known as social determinants of health, offer valuable information about a person’s potential risk of heart disease but are often...