Bill Gates, renowned Silicon Valley billionaire and philanthropist, has pledged to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital...
Disneyland has closed off two cooling towers in Orange County after authorities discovered bacteria contamination that got several people sick with Legionnaires’...
Double-lung transplants using organs taken from older donors have a survival rate that is almost equivalent to those taken from younger donors,...
Wounds sustained during the day heal two times faster than those received at night, a new study says. While the premise may...
San Diego County’s hepatitis A outbreak may just be on the brink of spreading elsewhere. Two tourists who visited San Diego for...
Mushrooms are “without a doubt” the best food for anti-aging, new research states. Researchers at Pennsylvania State University found that mushrooms are...
A baby girl in Texas appears to be making medical history by surviving after being born just 21 weeks into gestation. Infants...
The solution to fighting mosquito-borne diseases could very well be other mosquitoes. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given biotechnology startup MosquitoMate...
A child in Germany who has a genetic disease that leaves his skin extremely fragile has been given genetically modified skin. Hassan...
Drinking alcohol may have ties to cancer, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which represents the top cancer doctors in the...
Three patients in Kenya and Uganda have died from the Marburg virus, an extremely rare and fatal disease, the World Health Organization...
The World Health Organization has urged farmers to cut down on using antibiotics to treat pigs, chickens and cattle raised for meat,...
The Drug Enforcement Administration conducted a Take Back event on October 28 nationwide to give people the chance to turn in unused...
The state of Kentucky filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing Endo International Plc of contributing to drug overdoses and the subsequent opioid epidemic...
Zika is rearing its head in the United States again. The Florida Department of Health confirmed on Friday that it now has...
Some brain cells do actually slow down when a person doesn’t get enough sleep, a new study shows. Researchers recorded activity directly...
Members of the Red Cross team working during the Ebola outbreak from 2014 to 2016 made off with an estimated $6 million...
Gonorrhea has seen a rapid spike in Australia, jumping to 63% in the past five years, according to a new study. Researchers...
Gut bacteria living in the digestive system appears to have an influence on whether or not tumors grow smaller during cancer treatments,...
A British woman was arrested in Egypt, accused of drug trafficking. She has been kept in prison for close to a month....