For decades, nicotine has been demonized as a harmful, addictive substance and one of the reasons why cigarette smoking is so ...

Surgical and conservative management show similar impacts on CV risk and mortality in bilateral adrenal tumors and cortisol excess.

In normal scientific terms, excessive mucus, or phlegm, is usually caused by infections like colds, sinus issues, allergies, smoking, chronic lung diseases like COPD, cystic fibrosis and ...

A US study published in PLOS Medicine looks at air pollution as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease. Prof Matt Loxham, Professor of Respiratory Biology & Toxicology, University of Southampton, said: ...

Gravity seems constant but it turns out, Earth is weirder than that. Gravity actually wobbles a bit across the planet. And ...

After an analysis of health data from over 131,000 people tracked for up to 43 years, researchers found that drinking coffee ...

To prevent algorithmic bias, the authors call for multivariable modeling frameworks that jointly incorporate biological sex, genetic ancestry, and gender-related life-course exposures.

For 3 decades, the clinical narrative for limited-stage small cell lung cancer (LS-SCLC) was one of grim consistency. Patients diagnosed with this aggressive neuroendocrine malignancy—a disease ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

Large cohort study links short leukocyte telomere length with higher cataract risk and worse lens opacity, highlighting biological aging in vision loss.

Results of a large cohort study show adherence to a Mediterranean diet is linked to a lower risk for all stroke types in ...

Different dairy foods appear to influence the gut’s bacteria and wall-attached microbial community in distinct ways.