Cold weather can bring unexpected power outages, so ensuring you have an emergency plan for your at-home medical devices is ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Human norovirus, the leading cause of viral gastroenteritis accounting for an estimated 685 million cases and approximately ...

When you are feeling hungry, the brain takes the necessary steps toward consuming a meal. Many of these steps are not well ...

While existing data on the effect of spaceflight on the bones and tendons is available, there is little information about how ...

Large-scale protein and gene profiling have massively expanded the landscape of cancer-associated proteins and gene mutations ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine, with ...

Why monitor blood pressure (BP)? Hypertension (high blood pressure) is an important health issue in children, because of its association with obesity. High blood pressure is considered a risk factor ...

While the holidays can feel like a jolly time to celebrate with loved ones, many face this time of year feeling isolated and ...

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to resist the effects of antibiotics, a type of drug - such as penicillin or ciprofloxacin - that kills or stops the growth of bacteria. When bacteria ...

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) are serious infectious respiratory diseases that are caused by members of a class of viruses known as coronaviruses ...