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The number of people over 40 in the UK living with glaucoma—the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide—is already ...

Preventing high blood glucose (pre-diabetes) from turning into type 2 diabetes with lifestyle changes could more than halve ...

Regularly doing a mix of different types of physical activity may be best for prolonging the lifespan, but the associations ...

A new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health finds that community water fluoridation (CWF) is not ...

It's well established that gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are strongly linked. But what wasn't known, until a ...

For many cancer patients, hair loss is one of the most distressing side effects of their therapy. Increasingly, they have been taking oral supplements of biotin, which are marketed to consumers for ...

The medical consequences of traumatic brain injuries are well-studied and affect millions of Americans every year. But one of ...

A recent study by Vanderbilt Health researchers has revealed a greater, detrimental role for B lymphocytes (B cells) in the ...

Dorje Dundul recently had his foot gnawed by a brown bear—a member of the species Ursus thibetanus, to be precise.

According to new research from the University of Delaware, nearly 40% of American adults ages 18 to 64 with arthritis—almost ...

For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...