The first national survey of skin infections among high school athletes has found that wrestlers have the highest number of infections, with football players coming in a distant second, according to r...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published guidance recommending infliximab for use within its marketing authorisation as an option for treating severe active ankylosin...
Who would not want the hands of Michelangelo, one of the greatest painters and sculptors in history? Now it seems that those hands were working through the pain of degenerative arthritis to create mas...
The risk of a child breaking a bone can depend upon their ethnicity and where they live in the UK, according to a new study. An analysis of the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink database by resea...
A team of Rochester scientists has, for the first time, identified and isolated a stem cell population capable of skull formation and craniofacial bone repair in mice--achieving an important step towa...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the Henry Ford Health System report evidence that higher levels of physical fitness may not only reduce risk of heart attacks and death from all causes, but also possi...
Microcephaly is a rare neurological condition affecting 2-12 babies per 10,000 live births in the United States every year. 1 The condition presents as having a smaller than average head size as compa...
People hospitalized due to an encounter with a law enforcement officer are more likely to have a mental illness, have longer hospitalizations, more injuries to the back and spine, and greater need for...
A new study led by Western University and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid presents overwhelming evidence that women should, whenever possible, exercise during pregnancy to combat high blood pres...
You can run on the treadmill or lift weights until your face turns blue, but a new study examines why exercise alone will not aid weight loss over longer periods. According to the study, even if we ex...
