Hormone replacement therapy can be a way for women to prevent the inflammation that leads to disease. "There's some bone ...

Genetic treatments could be the key to unlocking some rare diseases. But bringing these medicines to patients involves ...

An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

Most medical trainees have never seen measles or its complications, muscle rigidity from tetanus, or an infant struggling to ...

New options for testing and treating some of the most common sexually transmitted diseases are becoming available.

There could be new hope in the fight against gum disease. Scientists have developed a toothpaste that targets only the ...

However, accumulating evidence over the past two decades demonstrates that a biomarker called C-reactive protein — which ...

For the first time, scientists have answered a longstanding question in cell biology about a partnership of proteins called ...

Dr. Ali Raja says risk-based vaccines have helped keep meningitis rates low; however, public health experts believe if ...

Mapping the genomes of the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, has uncovered new insights into ...

Scientists at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) have overturned a long-held belief in genetics: that inheriting two ...

The new CDC recommendation takes a much narrower view of the meningococcal disease threat. Because of "the low incidence ...