Up to 1 in 3 adults and young people with epilepsy also have mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety. A new ...

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics.

There are over 15 million people living with spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide. Experimental treatments using electrical ...

By weaving oral health into primary care education, research, and community practice, recent studies demonstrate that ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego and UC San Francisco have found that Proposition 56, a major tobacco ...

The liver is one of the hardest working organs in the human body. It detoxifies harmful substances, helps with digestion, ...

Although Josefina Muralles' husband works full-time, their household income is just above the federal poverty line—too high ...

Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in the seconds ...

West Nile virus has been detected in mosquitoes for the first time this year in the Bay State, according to the Department of ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued a Salmonella ...

Women who are infertile have an increased risk of heart disease and stroke, with the risk highest among younger women and ...

The brains of humans and other primates are known to execute various sophisticated functions, one of which is the ...