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 ...

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 ...

There are a variety of conditions that have obsessive compulsive disorder qualities that are quite similar to OCD such as PANDAS, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), hoarding disorder, trichotillomania, ...

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...